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Sharing Awareness and Governance of Adaptation to Climate Change in Spain (LIFE SHARA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

Background Spain is highly vulnerable to climate change. It was one of the first countries in Europe to address the challenge of climate change adaptation, approving a National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (PNACC) in 2006. PNACC has been developed to align itself closely with the main instruments and elements adopted at European level, in particular t ...
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Mediterranean monk seal conservation in Madeira and development of a conservation status surveillance system (LIFE Madeira Monk Seal)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 30, 2018,

Background The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is a critically endangered species. With less than 600 individuals throughout its distribution range, it is considered one of the most endangered mammals in the world. It is priority species of Community interest listed in Annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive. The species has two clearly d ...
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Recovery and conservation Program for Galemys pyrenaicus and its habitat in Castilla y León and Extremadura (DESMANIA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Background The Iberian/Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) is a small semi-aquatic mammal that is endemic to mountain streams in the Iberian Peninsula. The species is an excellent biological indicator with numbers reflecting closely the state of conservation or degradation of the habitats it occupies. However, the desman is increasingly in danger of exti ...
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NATURAL FEEDING HABITAT RESTORATION FOR CINEREUS VULTURE AND OTHER AVIAN SCAVENGERS IN CENTRAL SPAIN (LIFE FEEDING SCAVENGERS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jul 30, 2017,

Background After two decades of recovery, species of black vulture and other necrophagous birds (i.e. feeding on carrion) face a new threat, namely a lack of food. This has been caused by several factors, including the emergence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which provoked strict measures to prevent its spread; the most important, with regard ...
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Increasing Value and Flow in the Marine Biodiscovery Pipeline (PHARMASEA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The PharmaSea project focuses on obstacles in marine biodiscovery research, development and commercialization and brings together a broad interdisciplinary team of academic and industry researchers and specialists to address and overcome these. The partners are ideally placed to demonstrate how to widen the bottlenecks and increase the flow of ideas and products derived from the marine microbiome ...
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Inventory and designation of marine Natura 2000 areas in the Spanish sea (INDEMARES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Background A lack of scientific knowledge of offshore habitats and species has restricted the expansion of the Natura 2000 network into the sea. Research in marine areas far from the coast is costly. Few organisations and institutions have the necessary means and capability to undertake such work. However, Member States were committed to providing the sc ...
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Elaboration of the Prioritized Action Framework for Natura 2000 in Spain (PAF NATURA 2000 SPAIN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Background The ability of relevant authorities to successfully implement conservation of Natura 2000 sites requires an adequate financial strategy. There are also many interrelating objectives, actions and approaches to managing an SPA/SCI that can involve things such as human health, regional development, research, innovation, information and communicati ...
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Conservation of the Cantabrian Capercaille(Tetrao urogallus cantabricus) in its habitat in the Cantabrian Mountain range. (UROGALLO CANTABRICO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Background North-west Spain’s Cantabrian mountains are home to an isolated and endangered population of capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), which live in forests above 800 m. This population forms the south-western edge of the EU’s capercaillie distribution and survives in an area smaller than 2 000 km2. Cantabrian capercaillies have suffered a serious ...
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Prevention and Restoration Actions to Combat Desertification. An Integrated Assessment (PRACTICE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"The general objective of PRACTICE is to link S & T advances and traditional knowledge on prevention and restoration practices to combat desertification with sound implementation, learning and adaptive management, knowledge sharing, and dissemination of best practices. Specific objectives are: 1. To create an international platform of long-term monitoring sites for assessing and investigating pra ...
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Promoting the Protection of Natura and Biodiversity in Urban Areas: Award European Capital of Nature and Biodiversity (Capital of Biodiversity)

Start date: Jan 2, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

Background The loss of biodiversity is one of the main environmental challenges in Europe. Decisions about urbanisation, the construction of infrastructure and the protection of green spaces all impact directly on the conservation of biodiversity in an important way. At the same time, they impact directly on quality of life for European citizens and clima ...
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Conservation of the Spanish Imperial Eagle, Black Vulture, Black Stork (CBD 2003)

Start date: Sep 1, 2003, End date: Sep 1, 2007,

Background The imperial eagle (Aquila adalberti), the black vulture (Aegypius monachus) and the black stork (Ciconia nigra) are three EU-priority listed species that breed mainly in Spain's Mediterranean-type forests. Their main conservation threats are the degradation of their natural habitats, to which they are highly sensitive, the disturbance caused b ...
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Conservation of the Iberian Lynx in Montes de Toledo-Guadalmena (Lince Toledo)

Start date: Nov 1, 2002, End date: Oct 31, 2006,

Background The Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) is the most threatened carnivorous mammal in Europe, according to the IUCN. A medium-sized feline (8-14 kg), it lives in areas characterised by a mixture of dense woodland, Mediterranean scrub and pasture, especially areas with an abundance of rabbits and where interference from humans is minimal. Until the 19th ...
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