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Bird conservation in Lesser Prespa Lake: benefiting local communities and building a climate change resilient ecosystem (LIFE Prespa Waterbirds)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

Background Prespa National Park is important for biodiversity: it includes two Natura 2000 network sites, 49 different habitat types, 70 vegetation types, and more than 2 000 plant species. Its lakes host 23 fish species, including eight endemics, and the park contains 11 amphibian, 21 reptile and 60 mammal species. Avifauna includes 272 bird species, of ...
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ECOPOTENTIAL: IMPROVING FUTURE ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS THROUGH EARTH OBSERVATIONS (ECOPOTENTIAL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

Terrestrial and marine ecosystems provide essential services to human societies. Anthropogenic pressures, however, cause serious threat to ecosystems, leading to habitat degradation, increased risk of collapse and loss of ecosystem services. Knowledge-based conservation, management and restoration policies are needed to improve ecosystem benefits in face of increasing pressures. ECOPOTENTIAL makes...
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Networking nesting habitats along the French Mediterranean coastline for the Conservation of Colonial Charadriiformes (LIFE+ ENVOLL)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Background AMV (the project beneficiary) is developing and coordinating a colonial Charadriiformes (gulls and waders) conservation programme along the French Mediterranean coastline, where populations of these EU Birds Directive-listed species are in decline. This decline is mainly attributed to poor reproductive success due to the poor quality of nesting...
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Satellite-based Wetland Observation Service (SWOS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

The objective of the project SWOS is to develop a monitoring and information service focussing on wetland ecosystems.Globally wetlands are the ecosystems with the highest rate of loss. This is alarming, considering their significance as biodiversity hotspots and ecosystems with a central role in the water cycle, including improving water quality and reducing water scarcity, in climate regulation a...
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Recherche et conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Start date: Jun 15, 2015, End date: Jun 14, 2016,

Tour du Valat is located in the heart of the Rhône delta, in the Camargue (Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur Region), at 30km from Arles (50 000 inhabitants). The Tour du Valat estate extends over 2,600 hectares, of which 1,100ha have been classified as a Regional Nature Reserve. The foundation is directed to the public benefit since 1978 and is run by an international council of scientists and nature c...
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Recherche et conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Start date: Jun 17, 2014, End date: Jun 16, 2015,

Tour du Valat is located in the heart of the Rhône delta, in the Camargue (Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur Region), at 30km from Arles (50 000 inhabitants). The Tour du Valat estate extends over 2,600 hectares, of which 1,100ha have been classified as a Regional Nature Reserve. The foundation is directed to the public benefit since 1978 and is run by an international council of scientists and nature c...
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People for Ecosystem Based Governance in Assessing Sustainable Development of Ocean and Coast (PEGASO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

"Many efforts have been deployed for developing Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Both basins have, and continue to suffer severe environmental degradation. In many areas this has led to unsustainable trends, which have impacted, on economic activities and human well-being. An important progress has been made with the launch of the ICZM Protocol for ...
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MEDWET REGIONS : Action Program about the humid zones in the Mediterranean Regions (MEDWET REGIONS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2002, End date: Oct 29, 2004,

« Medwet Regions » sintéresse à la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes. Le projet prévoit des actions de conservation dans ces zones dimportance majeure, ainsi que la promotion des politiques et des stratégies nationales, afin de prendre en considération la valeur de ces zones dans le processus de planification. « Medwet Regions » vise donc lamélioration du niveau de connaissance et lh...
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