Builder of expanded #dugoutcanoes / #Localguide in Soomaa #nationalpark / Board member of @ecotourismnet / Auditor in @GreenDesti
Soomaa NP & Pärnu / Estonia
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Just before Christmas, Estonia’s Soomaa region will mark four years since the inscription of its tradition of building and using expanded dugout boats in UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. haabjas.com/2025/12/24/four-…
Check out "2nd International Early Watercraft Congress" eventbrite.co.uk/e/2nd-inter… @eventbritehelp
Living Culture and Craftsmanship of Expanded Logboats (Haabjas) in Estonia by @Ruukel #aivarruukel slideshare.net/slideshow/liv… via @Slideshare
Baltic National Parks Signed a Historic Cooperation Agreement ecoclub.com/blogs/baltic-nat… via @ecoclub
Jeffrey Sachs: We Are Now in the Early Days of World War III youtube.com/clip/UgkxHCkoq_V… via @YouTube
Aivar Ruukel retweeted
In tourism we always talked about distribution funnels to consumers. Now its about distribution funnels to AI agents
Bateaux monoxyles du monde ouralien hal.science/hal-05492412 #logboats #dugoutcanoes #ICH #livingculture #boatbuilding
Aivar Ruukel retweeted
A Global Ecocide! A new international investigation reveals that oil and gas licenses overlap with 7,000 protected areas worldwide. Weak enforcement mechanisms, leading to "paper parks," allow activities to continue despite recommendations from IUCN and UNESCO to ban hydrocarbon extraction in protected sites. ecocide.reportersunited.gr/
ALT image of hydrocarbon infrastructure next to protected area
Global biodiversity body IPBES concerned over US withdrawal mediaindia.eu/environment/gl…
Aivar Ruukel retweeted
ECOCLUB Blogs: "Four years on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List have strengthened Soomaa’s dugout boat culture" by Aivar Ruukel @Ruukel ecoclub.com/blogs/four-years…
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Yay! The launch of a new overnight flat-bed sleeper bus service in Europe - between Amsterdam and Zurich, and Zurich and Barcelona. Rhiannon Batten reviews it in The Guardian: theguardian.com/travel/2025/…
ALT Photo: Rhiannon Batten
ALT The flat-beds in the overnight sleeper bus between Zurich and Amsterdam. Photo: Rhiannon Batten
I just published Four years on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List have strengthened Soomaa’s dugout boat… medium.com/p/four-years-on-t…
Hancock designated as Finno-Ugric Capital of Culture 2026! - Finno-Ugric Capitals of Culture capitals.uralic.org/news/han…
