Eight hours shovelling snow in -20C might not sound like the ideal day out, but a committed team of volunteers in Finland are working dawn to dusk building enormous snow drifts for one of the world's most endangered seals.
To save these rare seals, 300 volunteers spend days shovelling snow into piles 7m long and 1.5m high around the edge of the frozen lake.
Biard describes the day as kind of fun, and adds, you actually have an impact, which is nice. If we don't do it, then they would just go extinct quite quickly.
More than 300 pups have been born in artificial snowdrifts since they started making them in 2014. We are on a rising growth curve, so things are looking promising.
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