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Snowbanks and Safe Traps for the World's Rarest Seal

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🇫🇮 Finland

Volunteers plow artificial snowbanks and hand out seal-safe fish traps to pull Lake Saimaa's endemic ringed seal back from the edge.

530individualsSaimaa ringed seal population
200individualsPopulation low point (1980s) before recovery
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