Workbook challenge for visitors: linking local people, visitors and protected area: seminar 17-21 August 2000 Inari, Finland

In 1990, at UNESCO's instigation a national environmental education strategy for Finland was prepared. Although even at that time Metsähallitus was engaged in awareness raising work connected with environmental education and was enjoying cooperation with schools and so on, Metsähallitus was not mentioned in the strategy at all, not even its Natural Heritage Services unit as a contributor to such education. This notwithstanding, the strategy sets objectives for environ-mental education and loosely places obligations on the different stakeholders in regard to e.g. "State" responsibility for various activi-ties.