EU Green Week 2022 News

Issue 612: This study explores participatory fire-management strategies, including landscape values from experts and local people, to strengthen wildfire-prone regions by creating resilient landscapes that protect ecological and social functions.

Issue 612: Researchers have developed a framework for evaluating technologies that reduce marine plastic pollution.

Issue 612: Species that rely on freshwater habitat are declining in Europe. This study finds that biodiversity within smaller sites in the European Natura 2000 network is highly impacted by the land use of surrounding areas.

This new roadmap will ensure the effective implementation of the Forest Partnership.

The Dinaric-SE Alpine lynx population went extinct at the beginning of 20th century due to hunting and persecution, habitat loss and lack of prey species. It was successfully reintroduced in the 1973 by translocating animals from a Carpathian source to Slovenia.

In Austria, lynx populations are rather small and can be divided into one population at the Austro-German-Czech border (60 to 80 lynxes in total) as well as a second population in the national park Kalkalpen (consisting of 6 confirmed lynxes in 2018).

Project Hero is an online educational platform for middle and high school students aimed at raising their awareness and activism in various environmental themes.  The platform offers authentic project-based learning experiences to empower students to act for their local species and ecosystems.

Livestock protection plus dog (Herdenschutz plus Hund e.V.), is a community of livestock owners and interested parties with the common aim of improving technical herd protection and the training of livestock guarding dogs in Saxon-Anhalt.

The Status and Conservation of the Alpine Lynx Population (SCALP) was created in 1995 to survey the status of the lynx in the Alps, carry out monitoring activities in coordination between Alpine countries and close research gaps in the region.