Nature Protection

Specialists in our Nature Conservation Department plan and carry out activities to restore endangered or poorly conditioned habitats or to make the habitat of a particular protected species (e.g. flying squirrel, capercaillie, natterjack toad, orchids) more suitable.

Restoration of mires, followed by restoration of semi-natural biotic communities, i.e. heritage meadows, is the number one nature conservation activity. We make the use of restored meadows and pastures available to entrepreneurs to ensure that their biodiversity is maintained through haymaking or animal grazing.

The Nature Conervation Department also organises the demolition of dams that hinder the movement of fish on rivers and the repairing of spawning grounds, while also maintaining parks and individual nature conservation sites. We perform a lot of necessary nature conservation work with the help of external funding.

The Põlula Fish Rearing Centre, which has been part of RMK since 2014, restores Estonia’s fish stocks. We raise and release endangered salmon and whitefish and protected Baltic Sea sturgeon juveniles into the rivers. We nurture the only freshwater pearl mussel population in Estonia, which is in danger of extinction.