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 This web guide is a joint effort by the County Administrative Board, the County Council and the municipalities of Västerbotten.

Environment in Vasterbotten 
In Vasterbotten like elsewhere in Sweden we have new environmental legislation that has as its main goal to guarantee living and future generations of human beings a healthy, good environment in which to live.
The Swedish Parliament has established 15 objectives for environmental quality that describe the qualities our environment and our common natural and cultural resources must have in order to be  ecologically sustainable. The overall aim is for us to be able to hand over a society to the next generation in which the major environmental problems have been solved.

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Regional cooperation in the Barentsregion
Enviromental information about the Barentsregion.

The Swedish Centre for Ecological Sustainability
SWECOL is a Swedish Centre for Ecological Sustainability, is a governmental authority and the aim of the centre is to encourage development towards a sustainable society and to inspire to new intitiatives in ecological sustainability by turning research findings and ideas of sustainability into practice.

Enviromental highschool
Umeå School of the Environment (USE)  is a new co-operation between Umeå University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) with the purpose of uniting the powers in education, research and social application to the environmental field.

Institute for Sustainable Development
A non-profit, regional competence centre working with the world around us from a global point of view with focus on environmentally aware business development.
Wild animals in Västerbotten
Västerbotten County stretches from the sea to the mountains. In between there are forests. There are many wild animals in the county, both common and more rare. There is a zoo in Lycksele where you can see, among other things, wolves, musk-oxen, wolverines and other exciting animals.
More about environment in Västerbotten
....Linktips:
Swedish Environmental Quality Objective 
Swedish EnvironNet 
Many websites are in Englsih
Hunting
Hunting for small game in the mountains provides many people with valuable recreation and unequalled experiences of nature in our mountain world. Look after it!
Great opportunities for salmon fishing
Of the original 20 rivers with natural reproduction of salmon around the Baltic Sea, only 25 are left today. Ten of these are in the County of Västerbotten.

Updated: 23 mar 2006