SaveGREEN Safeguarding the functionality of transnationally important ecological corridors in the Danube basin
Report of the SaveGREEN Final Conference "Mainstreaming Ecological Connectivity - Challenges, Ideas and Possible Solutions" is coming soon!
Many valuable ecological corridors of the Carpathian and other mountain ranges in the Danube region are impeded or threatened by economic development such as linear transport infrastructure construction or intensive agricultural, forestry, or water management practices. The reason for this conflict is that they are not sufficiently planned with the goal to maintain ecological connectivity and flow of multiple ecosystem services that these Green Infrastructure elements provide. Mitigation measures such as green bridges are often missing or dysfunctional because of inadequate design, location and inappropriate management of surrounding land use by e.g. agriculture or forestry. The impacts are traffic-kills and lowered reproductive success of key species dependent on functional corridors.
The project SaveGREEN aims to demonstrate ways of designing appropriate mitigation measures and maintaining or improving the functionality of ecological corridors through integrated planning. It thereby builds on key results of the DTP projects TRANSGREEN, ConnectGREEN, and HARMON. Monitoring the impact of such measures will help us to learn and derive proper recommendations for follow-up action and policy design. The focus of the project will be on critical ecological corridors of the Alpine-Carpathian Corridor, SW-Carpathians, Zakarpattia, Beskydy, Lyulin and Balkan mountains impacted by linear transport projects and unsustainable land use.
We will foster cross-sectoral collaboration, build capacity for replication of pilots and upscale results through improved policy frameworks. The project partnership covers key sectors to be involved in integrated planning of mitigation measures: nature conservation (ministries, agencies, authorities, NGOs), research and education (universities, research institution), transport (ministries, motorway companies) and consultancy business (limited company) and ASPs from complementary sectors from AT, BG, CZ, FR, GE, GR, HU, RO, SK and UA.
- Start date
- 01-07-2020
- End date
- 31-12-2022
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 2681728.7
- ERDF Contribution: 2279469.36
- IPA Contribution: 0
- ENI Contribution: 0
- Call number
- Call 3
- Priority
- Environment and culture responsible Danube region
- Specific objective
- Foster the restoration and management of ecological corridors
Library
| Filename | Date of upload | |
|---|---|---|
| OT2.3 Preparatory Actions for implementing CSOP Zakarpattia (UA) | 11-08-2023 11:09:31 | |
| OT2.3 Preparatory Actions for implementing CSOP Targu Mures-Targu Neamt (RO) | 11-08-2023 11:08:35 | |
| OT2.3 Preparatory Actions for implementing CSOP Rila-Verila-Kraishte (BG) | 11-08-2023 11:07:48 | |
| OT2.3 Preparatory Actions for implementing CSOP Pöttsching (AT) | 11-08-2023 11:06:55 | |
| OT2.3 Preparatory Actions for implementing CSOP Novohrad-Nógorad (SK) | 11-08-2023 11:06:16 | |
Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WWF Central and Eastern Europe | Lead partner | hmeyer@wwfcee.org | Austria |
| Environment Agency Austria | ERDF partner | roland.grillmayer@umweltbundesamt.at | Austria |
| Black Sea NGO Network | ERDF partner | bsnn@bsnn.org | Bulgaria |
| Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation | ERDF partner | stefan.avramov@biodiversity.bg | Bulgaria |
| Friends of the Earth Czech Republic, Olomouc branch | ERDF partner | miroslav.kutal@hnutiduha.cz | Czech Republic |
Project News
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SaveGREEN - Closing a chapter: SaveGREEN holds final conference on ecological connectivity in Vienna
- 25-12-2022
For the past two-and-a-half years, the SaveGREEN project has focused on identifying, collecting, and promoting the best solutions for safeguarding ecological corridors in the Carpathians and other mountain ranges in the Danube region. Ecological...
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SaveGREEN - Ukrainian Expert Team’s Transnational Experience Exchange Workshop
- 19-12-2022
All together 27 participants gathered at the Transnational Experience Exchange Workshop Ukraine online event within the SaveGREEN project. During the round-table, the participants overviewed the practical experience of project implementation, the...
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SaveGREEN - Training event on environmental impact assessment during transport infrastructure construction in Ukraine
- 19-12-2022
SaveGREEN project's experts in Ukraine organized a training event for stakeholders on "Peculiarities of EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) during the planning of transport infrastructure construction and potential environmental risks analysis...
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SaveGREEN - EVENT INVITATION November 30th: International seminar from Ukraine (Transnational workshop)
- 28-11-2022
WWF- Ukraine expert team of the SaveGREEN project, invites you to an international online seminar on the SaveGREEN project's experience exchange. Representatives of the scientific community, transport infrastructure construction experts,...
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SaveGREEN - Presents monitoring results on wildlife-crossing facilities to Bulgarian regional and national media
- 28-11-2022
The Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation (BBF), Black Sea NGO Network (BSNN) and the South-West State Enterprise (SWSE) organised a field trip for regional and national media to present conclusions and recommendations based on the monitoring of...
