Good news from around Europe
The LIFE-OPTIMAL2012 project (LIFE12 ENV/IT/000671) has officially inaugurated Biogas Wipptal, a pioneering plant in the South Tyrol region of Italy that converts livestock waste into renewable energy and a natural fertiliser. The biogas plant, which is located in Val di Vizze, takes manure and slurry from 62 livestock farmers in
The LIFE project Return of the Neophron (LIFE 10 NAT/BG/000152) has published a Flyway Action Plan for the Conservation of the Balkan and Central Asian Populations of the Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus (EVFAP). This LIFE project initiative makes a significant contribution to the implementation of the international Memorandum of Understanding
The LIFE ConRasi project (LIFE14 NAT/IT/001017) made the news recently when a team of Italian and Spanish ornithologists working in in Sicily attached GPS transmitters to eight young eagles to monitor them and help put an end to poaching. In articles published on 17 June, the national newspapers La Repubblica
The Celtic Seas Partnership LIFE project (LIFE11/ENV/UK/392) has launched an Information Portal for the Celtic Seas. The portal enables users to find relevant data and information about the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), which seeks to more effectively protect the marine environment across Europe. The Celtic Seas is one of
The LIFE project Waldrappteam (LIFE12 BIO/AT/000143) has welcomed the recent condemnation of a hunter for the killing of one of the most endangered bird species worldwide, the northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita). In October 2012, two the northern bald ibises, named Goja and Jedi, were shot by an Italian bird
This issue of LIFEnews focuses on a LIFE platform meeting dedicated to ecosystem services and how to incorporate them into decision-making. These services are defined as the benefits provided to humanity by ecosystems.The first article gives an overview of the event and the importance of ecosystem services, with contributions from
The LIFE programme was a winner in the Andalusian Environment Awards 2017, an initiative organised by the regional government of Andalusia in Spain. The awards recognise the work of individuals or organisations in dissemination and diffusion of environmental values in the region. LIFE received the award in the ‘natural values’
The MoorLIFE2020 (LIFE14 NAT/UK/000070) project will give people a virtual moor experience later this year, when it tours its ‘Bogstatic Van’ through the towns of the English Peak District and South Pennines, later this year. The LIFE project is protecting active blanket bog habitat within the South Pennine Moors’ Natura
Public-private partnerships could be the answer to the lack of funding for the protection and management of Natura 2000 network sites, according to a recent conference organised by the LIFE Stymfalia project (LIFE12 NAT/GR/000275). The objective of the conference Business and Biodiversity in Natura 2000 sites: the way forward which
Kaja has given birth! The four-year-old lynx (Lynx lynx carpathicus), who was one of the first three individuals to be reintroduced to the Palatinate Forest under the German LIFE Luchs Pfälzerwald project (LIFE13 NAT/DE/000755), has produced a litter of two. The births are the first reproductions to have occurred in