Despite many advances during the three decades of active development of ecosystem service related concepts and their applications including the rapid development of ecosystem function commodification (Kosoy and Corbera, 2010) – we are still a long way from having turned the concept of ecosystem services into a practical tool in the formulation of day-to-day policies on a national or regional scale. This is largely due to the overarching nature of the concept and the lack of concrete examples and ecosystem service typologies. In Finland, as presumably in many other countries, there is an urgent need to interpret the concept from a national point of view: What are the relevant ecosystem services in Finland? Which of them are the most important? How much do we know about them