Nature protection and biodiversity - Outlook 2020 (Finland)

Finland has no official assessment that could serve as an outlook for nature conservation and biodiversity. However, a summation of the national biodiversity indicator set yields the first signs of a potential slowing down of biodiversity loss in Finland. Most state and impact indicators show weak to moderate decreasing trends since 1990 whereas most showed moderate to strong decreasing trends before 1990. Therefore, in a business as usual scenario biodiversity is likely to continue decline until 2020, but at a slower pace than before. If the decline is to be stopped then the drivers of biodiversity change that relate mostly to forestry, agriculture and land-use need to be adjusted and the scale of conservation efforts (responses) needs to be stepped up.