Estonia

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Reet Aus

Waste & Recycling

Tallinn designer Reet Aus builds whole clothing collections from the 18% of fabric that factories normally cut away and throw out.

18percentAverage share of fabric left over as waste in traditional clothing manufacturing, the pool UPMADE draws on

75percentAverage water saved per UPMADE garment

Eestimaa Looduse Fond (Estonian Fund for Nature)

Forests

Estonia's oldest nature NGO restores old-growth forests and wooded meadows while running volunteer road patrols to save migrating frogs.

41foundersFounding naturalists (1991)

111sitesKnown flying-squirrel sites remaining in Estonia

Wildlife Estonia (Eesti Loodushoiu Keskus)

Wildlife

A Tartu-based NGO is restocking the Atlantic sturgeon, functionally extinct in Estonia for decades, in the Narva and Pärnu rivers.

100ksturgeon/yearYoung sturgeon released per year (target)

1.1MEURLIFE Baltic Sturgeon project budget