April 2014
LIFE demonstrates the value of environmental volunteering
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The European Commission
16 April Manchester-based project releases films on recycling
recognises the role that volunteers play in improving social cohesion and generating citizenship. In 2011, it produced a Communication on 'EU Policies and Volunteering: Recognising and Promoting Cross-border Voluntary Activities in the EU'...
10 April Launch of next LIFE call for projects provisionally set for June
22 April LIFE Best Projects 2013: Nature, Environment and Information winners revealed 24 April WECF sets out its recommendations for EU policy on EDCs 26 April Rohrschollen Island project restores Rhine connection
Read more >> 24 April Bulgarian LIFE project celebrates return of lesser kestrels from Africa 30 April LIFE+: European Commission provides €282.6 million for 225 new environment and climate projects View other announcements >>
PROJECT SUMMARIES Read the latest project summaries
Volunteers help monitor aquatic warblers in Poland
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Volunteers have made an important
The Oroklini Lake is one of only three
contribution to the LIFE+ project
natural wetland areas in Cyprus and is
'Biomass use for Aquatic Warblers'
an important bird migratory route and
(LIFE09 NAT/PL/000260), being run by
stopover place in spring and winter.
the Polish Society for the Protection of
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OROKLINI (LIFE10 NAT/CY/000716)-
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Birds (OTOP) in the Podlasie and Lublin regions of eastern Poland.
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS 10/05
Public workshop on monitoring endangered insects
Badia Prataglia, Italy
13-15/05
Futurescapes project to host LIFE Platform Meeting on climate change adaptation
United Kingdom
14/05
LIFE DOMOTIC project's final conference
Valladolid, Spain
14- 16/05
Nature protection in Hungarian military areas
Veszprém, Hungary
27-29/05
Seminar on nitrogen fertilisation in vulnerable intensive irrigation areas
Pamplona, Spain
KH-AX-14-004-EN-N ISSN: 1725-1877
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