Here you will find a series of inspiring environmental success stories - from protecting and restoring nature, to reducing waste and pollution, and acting on the climate crisis.
With the help of EU funding, these projects are helping to implement the European Green Deal on the ground. They contribute to the shift towards a circular, energy efficient, climate-neutral Europe and help protect and improve the quality of the environment.
The European Union funds projects that protect and restore the environment, across Europe and beyond. The LIFE programme, for example, is the EU's funding instrument entirely dedicated to environmental, climate and energy objectives. It has already written thousands of success stories since 1992.
Discover a variety of these successful projects below.
The team behind Rivers of LIFE are improving water courses in Voxnan, Gimån and Ljusnan in the counties of Gävleborg and Jämtland.
In Ireland, the project BurrenLIFE developed a new model for the sustainable agricultural management of the priority habitats of the Burren.
LIFE TECMINE set out to improve the restoration of open pit mines in Mediterranean forest areas by combining different techniques.
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Several LIFE projects have helped restore Europe’s threatened mussel populations.
The immersive exhibition "through the eyes of a wolf" lets visitors experience the the perspective of a young wolf in dispersal in Italy.
MONITORING - Slovakia and Switzerland collaborated and combined scientific monitoring, genetic rescue efforts, and extensive public engagement to preserve lynx populations.
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.
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 Association for livestock guarding dogs, operated by shepherds, has dedicated itself to the promotion of livestock guarding dogs and their preservation in Germany.
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).
GrassLIFE’s ‘Nature hasn’t cancelled anything!’ campaign has picked up several awards at the BalticBest 2021 marketing and advertising competition.