Projects & Practice

Improving the accessibility for visitors to a restored nature reserve

Keywords:: Biodiversity, Environmental protection, Protected areas, Tourism, Water management
Countries:: Sweden

Support from the Swedish Rural Development Programme helped improve accessibility for visitors in a restored municipal nature reserve.

Allrounder Moor - Climate Protectors and Noah's Ark of Biodiversity

Keywords:: Biodiversity, Environmental protection, Information & promotion activities, Natural resources, Nature conservation, Protected areas, Tourism, Water management, Youth
Countries:: Germany

Organising a series of educational events to raise awareness and interest about the environmental functions of the peatlands in Brandenburg.

‘Abissage’ - restoring traditional water management systems in the Ardennes

Keywords:: Biodiversity, Environmental protection, Irrigation, Nature conservation, Water management
Countries:: Belgium

Restoration of a meadow irrigation ditch to revive a multi-centennial tradition that existed throughout Europe and over time has produced meadows of outstanding flora.

Breitbandausbau Nordhessen – bridging the digital divide in rural areas

Keywords:: Broadband, Information & Communications Technology (ICT), Smart Villages
Countries:: Germany

Five districts in the north of Hesse joined forces to provide fast internet access in a region where no privately financed investment was covering the existing digital divide.

Restoration of the Romedenne clay-pit nature reserve

Keywords:: Biodiversity, Natural resources, Nature conservation, Protected areas
Countries:: Belgium

An environmental NGO implemented a project to preserve and maintain an old clay pit that provides shelter to a number of rare and endangered species.

Environmental Participatory Project - Awareness raising on Natura 2000

Keywords:: Environmental protection, Information & promotion activities, Nature conservation, Protected areas
Countries:: Spain

The project aimed to develop local participatory activities within the Natura 2000 sites of Andalusia.

Hautes Fagnes - restoration of broadleaved trees in municipal woodlands

Keywords:: Biodiversity, Environmental protection, Nature conservation
Countries:: Belgium

In favour of biodiversity, a municipality decided to remove spruce trees growing on municipal soil and to rehabilitate broadleaved trees that were originally growing in these areas.