Search for European Projects

Background AMV (the project beneficiary) is developing and coordinating a colonial Charadriiformes (gulls and waders) conservation programme along the French Mediterranean coastline, where populations of these EU Birds Directive-listed species are in decline. This decline is mainly attributed to poor reproductive success due to the poor quality of nesting ...

Background Open scrub and dry grassland Mediterranean habitats, such as France’s Eastern Corbières, had traditionally been maintained through grazing. Changing land use patterns had an adverse impact on these habitats which are important for many species, especially birds listed in Annex I of the Birds Directive. For example, the Eastern Corbières are ...