Dr. Tero Mustonen is the Chief of the village of Selkie, Finland, and an Arctic scholar specializing in Arctic biodiversity, climate change and Indigenous issues. He is the co-founder of the Snowchange Cooperative—an international organization dedicated to incorporating traditional knowledge into environmental policies. Mustonen has worked as the traditional knowledge coordinator for Eurasia for the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment, and has won several human rights and environmental awards for his work with Snowchange and Indigenous peoples of the Arctic.
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