KarRC RAS Director General Olga Bakhmet took part in a meeting of the Environmental Council under the Government of Karelia

The fourth meeting of the Environmental Council with the participation of the Head of Karelia Artur Parfenchikov took place today in Petrozavodsk. The topic of the meeting was the development of protected areas (PAs) in Karelia.

Scientists have collected and digitized rare letters from the frontline written in Karelian

The results of a Marathon of letters in Karelian and Vepsian were published on the eve of May 9. During three months the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History KarRC RAS conducted an interregional campaign, where participants were invited to share old letters from/to the frontlines written in the minority languages. As a result, more than 20 letters in Livvi Karelian and Karelian Proper were received. Scientists digitized them and published them with transcripts and translations on a special web resource.

Karelian biologists ran successful trials of a technique for detecting fish infection with helminths based on traces of their DNA in water

Specialists of the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS were the first in the republic to test the method of environmental DNA analysis (eDNA) to detect a model fish parasite in an area impacted by trout farms. This is especially important in the context of a growing number of fish farms that use the practice of transporting stock (fry) from between water bodies, which creates a risk of new parasites appearing in lakes. Currently, fish have to be captured and examined to detect an infection, and for the output to be accurate the sample should be at least 15 fish. This may be problematic in the wild and costly in cage facilities. The eDNA diagnosis system can detect the presence of parasites directly in water samples.