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Background Poor maintenance and a complete lack of management have led to a decline in the conservation status of Fennoscandian wooded pastures and meadow habitats (listed in Annex I of the EU Habitats Directive). The same problem is occurring in other rare deciduous forest habitats, such as oak and natural old broad-leaved forests. Some sites have been ...
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Reintroduction of burning in Boreal western taiga woodlands (LifeTaiga)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Background Controlled burning can support the conservation of many sites of priority habitat type 9010 (*Western Taïga) and, to some extent, habitat 9060 (Coniferous forests on, or connected to, glaciofluvial eskers) Up until 150 years ago, 1% of the wooded area burned annually. Today less than 0.016% burns annually. The reduction in the frequency of fir ...
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Background The majority of the project areas are protected as nature reserves, or bird sanctuaries, as well as being Natura 2000 network sites. In recent years, the habitats have begun to deteriorate because of a lack of management. The grassland habitats and grazed forests have become overgrown with bushes and trees, following the ending of grazing and h ...
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The Baltic Sea’s unique ecology is under a lot of pressure. Fishing, maritime pollution from ships and substantial additions of nutrition from e.g. sewage and farming all pose a threat to the inland sea where the water is estimated to take 30 years to renew. At all times there are some 2000 ships in movement, and each year we see 120-140 collisions and groundings in the Baltic Sea – both traffic a ...
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The aim of Baltic Master was to improve maritime safety by integrating and bringing forward local and regional perspectives. This included measures to improve the prevention and the preparedness for ship accidents as well as methods for managing the coastal zones.The issues concerning safe transportations, oil combatting and coastal management has a clear transnational link as they deal with the e ...
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Baltic Balance - Integrated settlement structures (Baltic Balance)

Start date: Sep 3, 2003, End date: Jan 2, 2007,

During the latest 10-15 years the negative effects on rural areas on both settlement and social structure have been evident. Questions have been raised about possibility to maintain a living countryside, which can be attractive for both living and work. Can the depopulation be stopped? And can we guarantee a continuous agriculture management? What happens with nature and culture values in rural ar ...
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South East Baltic Transport Link (SEBTrans-Link )

Start date: Aug 28, 2002, End date: Nov 27, 2005,

SEBTrans-Link is a direct continuation of the former Interreg II C project SEBTrans. This SEBTrans project identified strong demand for improved infrastructure in the SEBTrans corridors. In the North-South Corridor, building the A1 motorway (Gdynia – Lodz) in Poland is a first priority together with improving the section within Sweden (Gothenburg – Borås – Växjö – Karlskrona). Road improvements pr ...
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Seagull-DevERB (Seagull )

Start date: Aug 19, 2002, End date: Nov 18, 2005,

...mber regions of Euroregion Baltic (ERB), which are Kronoberg, Kalmar and Blekinge Counties in Sweden, the Regional Municipality of Bornholm in Denmark, The Kurzeme Planning Region in Latvia, Klaipeda County in Lithuania, Kaliningrad Region of The Russian Federation, and the Pomeranian and Warmia-Masurian Regions in Poland.The creation of ERB in 1998 was an expression of the member regions´ mutual ...
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Rock Art in Northern Europe (RANE )

Start date: Jun 25, 2002, End date: Sep 24, 2005,

Rock art (paintings and carvings on rock formations) is the oldest form of human art. The remaining examples of this historical art form are threatened both by a natural development and our modern way of living. The central objectives of RANE were to initiate measures and promote research that would improve the management and sustainable use of prehistoric rock art in the Baltic Sea Region. The pr ...
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