Anna Ruohonen is a freelance journalist and award-winning nonfiction author specialized in environmental issues.

She lives and works in Lapland, Finland, and many of her themes arise from the surrounding northern. environment. This is the case especially with forests, tourism, and related land-use conflicts.

Anna has published two collaborative non-fiction books. One of them, Metsä meidän jälkeemme (“Forest after us”) was awarded the Finlandia Prize of non-fiction literature in 2019.

Ruohonen has studied political science and administrative science. She currently works as a doctoral researcher at the University of Oulu.

 

 

Basic information

Name
Anna Ruohonen
Title
Reporter, PhD researcher
Expertise
forests
Country
Finland
City
Rovaniemi

Supported projects

Green To Grey: How Europe Is Squandering The Little Nature It Has Left

  • Environment

LISBON / IZMIR / ROVANIEMI – In the first investigation of its kind, 41 journalists and scientists from 11 countries collaborated to measure nature loss across Europe using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence.