ecological connections
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The European Platform on Coexistence between People and Large Carnivores
The fifth annual meeting of the EU Platform on Coexistence between People and Large Carnivores took place in Brussels on 29 May 2018. The Platform brings together representatives from landowning, reindeer herding, hunting, research and conservation organisations to “promote ways and means to minimize and find solutions to conflicts between people and large carnivores”. This…
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5th Report on Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystem Condition
The European Union’s Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 aims under its Target 2 to maintain and enhance ecosystem services in Europe. To this end, the European Commission is developing a knowledge base on ecosystems including aspects of ecosystem condition, the capacity of ecosystems to provide services and the pressures they are exposed to. Action 5 of…
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Life Gestire 2020 for better use of RDF environmental measures: a feedback from the workshop in Brussels
Encouraging concrete and effective use of complementary funds is one of the most substantial and at the same time more ambitious goals of Life Gestire 2020 project. For this reason, the Gestire 2020 team was invited to bring its own experiences, impressions and proposals for a productive and efficient use of Rural Development Program funds…
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BioBlitz: the numbers from the 2017 event
BioBlitz Lombardia 2017, a citizen science and naturalistic and scientific education event at the second edition, took place this year on May 20 and 21, on the occasion of the 25 years of the LIFE program. 29 protected areas involved, among Parks, P.L.I.S. Natural Reserves in Lombardy Region. Last years the protected areas involved were…
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