The Koijärvi Movement ( fi, Koijärvi-liike, ) was a

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environmental movement The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse philosophical, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues. Environmentalists a ...

that started in the spring of 1979. Its objective was to prevent the draining of near

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, an important bird habitat. The struggle lasted for two years and brought together previously fragmented, small circles of environmental activists to form a national movement. It was one of the most prominent of a wave of environmental actions in Finland at the time that led to the formation of the political party the

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and the election of Greens to the Finnish parliament and hastened the establishment of a national environmental ministry.

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