Search for European Projects

4 European Projects Found

Searched on 125080 European Projects

 FINISHED 

Arctic Biological, Cultural and Geological heritage (ABCGheritage)

Start date: Mar 22, 2012, End date: Dec 21, 2014,

The objective of the project is to raise awareness of the protected areas and recreational areas on the region known as the Green Balt of Fennoscandia. The areas offer potential in many ways. There is, e.g. a growing interest on geology, growing interest on and knowledge of sustainable utilization of natural resources in tourism, and these possibilities have not yet been utilized. Especially they ...
Read Project

 10

 FINISHED 

Natural Forests and mires in the "Green Belt" of Koillismaa and Kainuu (GreenBelt)

Start date: Jan 1, 2004, End date: May 31, 2008,

Background The project targeted the conservation of forests and mires in 13 Natura 2000 sites in Koillismaa and Kainuu in eastern Finland. The sites form part of the regional “green belt” – an extensive network of forests, mires and fells in Finland, Russia and Norway. The close proximity of these sites to the Russian border is particularly import ...
Read Project

 4

 FINISHED 

Restoration of boreal forests and forest-covered mires (Boreal forests)

Start date: Dec 1, 2002, End date: Dec 31, 2007,

Background Boreal natural forests, esker forests and bog woodlands are considered priority habitats under the Habitats Directive due to their scarcity in the EU. Southern and western Finland in particular has few such forest ecosystems remaining, as most have been substantially modified or replaced by commercial forest operations. Yet even so, their conse ...
Read Project

 9

 FINISHED 

Conservation of Cypripedium calceolus and Saxifraga hirculus in Northern Finland (Lady's slipper)

Start date: Dec 1, 2000, End date: May 31, 2005,

Background Lady's slipper (Cypripedium calceolus) and yellow marsh saxifrage (Saxifraga hirculus) are circumpolar species which have been seriously declining, principally as a result of the disappearance of suitable habitats. In the EU these species are to be found most abundantly in Finland and Sweden, although here too they are steadily decreasing. In t ...
Read Project

 1