03/27/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 03/27/2024 09:40
Guided nature tours of metropolitan area nature sites have again been collected in the municipalities' joint nature-excursion calendar. The calendars informing about the year 2024 excursions are available for pickup in libraries and customer-service points as of the beginning of April.
The metropolitan area's nature is surprisingly versatile. Different kinds of natural environments and local nature offer myriad experiences for all the senses. During the excursion season, we get to witness changes in the lives of fauna and flora from the spring to the fall.
The guided tours begin with admiring migratory birds in April and end with a polar-night excursion in November. In the middle of those two, there will be family excursions with snack breaks, hiking in national parks, and urban nature excursions from the seashore to the neighborhood forest. The excursions will also introduce you to nature in the night, for example, how the nocturnal songbirds and bats spend their early-summer nights.
The relaxed excursions exploring interesting sites will give you solid nature data on your own municipalities as well as on your neighboring municipalities. Do not hesitate to pose any questions that come up during your excursion to the capable nature guides - nature can always be surprising. The excursions are easily accessed by public modes of transport. When you become familiar with the nature sites, it will be easier for you to plan and independently implement your own excursions in the future.
The nature-excursion calendar will also instruct you to move responsibly in nature. Many of the excursion sites are situated in nature reserves. Their regulations translate into the region's visiting instructions.
The 2024 calendar also tells about what measures the cities involved take to ensure the preservation of nature, as well as what you can do in your own yard to increase biodiversity.
Basic facts about the nature excursions
The nature-excursion calendar in paper format can be fetched from Helsinki, Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa libraries, customer-service points, nature houses, and Haltia, at the latest, in April. The calendar has already been published in pdf format on the cities' websites. On Vantaa´s websites you can find the calender in pdf from on Retkeile luonnossa-webpage (webpage in Finnish). You can find Vantaa´s excursions also on Vantaa Event Calendar.
The metropolitan area cities-Espoo, Helsinki, Kauniainen, and Vantaa-have arranged free-of-charge, guided nature excursions for their residents already for over thirty years.