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Progress Report (PR1) submitted
The first project progress report has been submitted on 08/01/2018. The whole documentation can be downloaded here.
Autumn communication activities ended
This autumn, between the end of October and the beginning of November, four days of “Cammina Boschi” hikes were held in the five Life Project areas. Great enthusiasm and interest was shown by the hikers in seeing and walking through … Read More
Life4OakForests met the commisioner of UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Parco Regionale della Vena del Gesso Romagnola
Last 24th of November Life4Oak Forests had the pleasure to meet Mrs Beltram Godrana commisioner of Unesco World Heritage Site during the international assessment visit of the Candidacy for World Heritage Site “Karstification in the Evaporites and Caves in the … Read More
Native tree seedlings have been growing in the Ostoros Valley
The Bükk National Park Directorate (BNPD) bought the piece of land a few years ago in the framework of the LIFE4OakForests project. The previous owner did logging in an unsustainable manner, which damaged this habitat. WWF Hungary’s project coordinator and … Read More
The visit of the Region Authority Emilia-Romagna in the Life Project area Carnè-Rontana
The Staff of the Region Authority Emilia-Romagna, Protected areas and Mountain area Development Sector visited in a field excursion the forestry conservation actions in the Life Project area Carnè Rontana. Mrs Monica Palazzini Cerquetella, Responsible of the regional actions in … Read More
Forest and Family Day 2022
Once again this year, on 8 and 9 October, the Forest and Family Days of the Life4oakForests project were held in the Parco Regionale della Vena del Gesso Romagnola. Educational workshops and a treasure hunt were organised for children to … Read More
The wild cat occupied the newly established habitats in the project sites of Nagyoroszi (DINPD)
Major Borbála, Koncz Péter (DINPD) The structural characteristic of natural forests, such as the open clearings and different types of lying and standing dead wood (visible in the picture) were created in 2019 by the Duna-Ipoly National Park Directorate on … Read More
The new insect species (Curculio gyongyiae) to science was also found in the Life4OakForests project area
Koncz Péter (DINPI) Like other Curculio species that lives on oak forests, the larvae of the Curculio gyongyiae probably develops in oak acorns, and in autumn, the larvae that crawl out of the previously fallen acorns hibernate in the soil … Read More
LIFE BRIDGING THE GAP LIFE15NAT/SE/000772 come across LIFE4oakForests
The 6th of September 2022 Life4oakforests LIFE16NAT/IT/000245 met a delegation of 13 Swedish colleagues from the European project LIFE BRIDGING THE GAP LIFE15NAT/SE/000772 in the Parco Regionale della Vena del Gesso Romagnola The meeting of the two projects is linked … Read More
Life4oakForests at the XXVI International Congress of Entomology ICE2022, Helsinki, FI. July 17-22, 2022.
The Life4oakForests project on 19 July 2022 participated in the Life Symposium (Life Programme: Funding direct action to protect Europe’s threatened insects) organised by NEEMO-Monitoring Life projects and Communicating about the Life Programme and CINEA-European Climate, Environment and Infrastructure Executive … Read More
LIFE has been financing nature conservation projects for 30 years
Bükk National Park Directorate (BNPD) regularly organizes field trips for educational institutions. Most recently they’ve hosted 35 students of the Mátra Forestry Vocational Training School. The students visited BNPD’s oak forest near Cserépfalu where forestry measures with nature conservation goals … Read More