Natura 2000 Award - News

This initiative is the first time that voluntary mechanisms for biodiversity conservation have been put into practice for private lands in Latvia. Its results are expected to be incorporated into national policy.

The pioneering BlueLab project supports the competent authorities in their conservation efforts and promotes community management in an area of great conservation interest: the L’Albera marine Natura 2000 site in Catalonia.

This project has successfully improved more than 1,400 hectares of oak habitat across 30 Natura 2000 sites in Sweden, benefiting numerous oak-dependent species, and raising awareness in local communities about their outstanding conservation value.

This initiative outlines an innovative voluntary partnership mechanism, the Marine Stewardship Board, engaging numerous stakeholders to guarantee both development and nature conservation objectives for marine protected areas.

By restoring the connectivity and improving habitat conditions in the Salantas River, this initiative has led to the return of several fish and invertebrate species to an important Natura 2000 site.

This long-standing initiative has successfully reintroduced cinereous vulture populations and connected previously isolated populations in Spain and France.

The Wild Atlantic Nature project has delivered an extremely convincing demonstration of how farmers can be paid fairly and effectively to protect Natura 2000 sites and habitats.

This project implemented an impressive series of actions aimed at improving the protection of the black stork, and carried out monitoring to ensure that the black stork is now one of the most intensively monitored species in Poland.

The successful reintroduction of this threatened endemic species of algae paves the way for a wider recolonisation in Mediterranean waters, leading to the restoration of reefs and their habitat functions.