We are the network for Europe’s natural site managers. We bring together non-governmental and governmental organisations, and individuals and organisations committed to our vision. Founded in 1989, the network has grown to include members across Europe – from the Atlantic islands to the Black Sea; and from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean.
Eurosite’s strategic partner ILCN is holding its 4th Global Congress in Quebec, Canada from 16-18 October. 🌍 Several Eurosite members will join in-person.
📻 During this event, participants can listen to several sessions in five different tracks. Sessions that are broadcasted and that include Eurosite are the following:
1. OG2 Do You Trust Me? Building Partnerships Across Difference (Harm Schoten, Director Eurosite). 👥
2. LP2 Private Land Conservation Agreements in Civil Law Countries (Julie Babin, FENF, Matthias Brummer, XCN). 🌿
3. LS2 A Perfect Match? Partnering Foodscapes to Conservation (Eurosite Agriculture, Biodiversity and Climate Working Group). 💡
4. LP5 Pocket, Head, Heart: Three Tools for Living Landscapes (Eurosite Agriculture, Biodiversity and Climate Working Group). 🛠️
5. LS4 Stewarding Lands in a Changing Climate (Miquel Rafa Fornieles, FCP). 🌾
6. LL5 Network Perspectives (Tilmann Disselhoff, President Eurosite). 🗣️
🗒️ You can see the full program of the Congress here:
https://lnkd.in/eb5XQfXC
💻 It is possible for you to join online as a virtual participant. 🔗 You can register here:
https://lnkd.in/etKjCKZ7#InternationalLandConservationNetwork
📢Eurosite’s Management Planning Expert Group invites you to a webinar:
Rewilding: what does it mean and how can research help to make it climate smart?
🔜 When: 15 October 2024 between 16:00-17:00 CET
📍Where: via Zoom Register by clicking the link: https://lnkd.in/d6KuYDFc
Guest speaker:
- Prof. Dr. Liesbeth Bakker
Liesbeth is a senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and professor in rewilding ecology at Wageningen University & Research. She works on rewilding and ecosystem restoration under global change in freshwater and marine wetlands, grasslands and forest landscapes. She will talk about climate-smart rewilding as a nature based solution to climate change and biodiversity loss.
ℹ️ Want more information? Head to our website!
Join our Visitor Management and Visitor Centre Study Tour to two beautiful natural areas in the Netherlands and Flanders on 13-15 November! ℹ️ 🌲
Our members from Natuurmonumenten and Natuurpunt are dying to show you how different their approaches are when it comes to providing visitors of natural sites an experience they cannot forget. ✨
🇳🇱 You will visit Visitor Centre Oisterwijk and the beautiful area of the Oisterwijkse Bossen en Vennen in the company of Natuurmonumenten, followed by a cozy evening of discussions where you can even bring your own topic to the table! 🗣️
🇧🇪 Just across the border, you will join a visit to the visitor centre in Grote Netewoud, a lovely wooded and marshy area in the north of Flanders, lead by Natuurpunt. You will experience the site as a visitor and end your day with a lively evening of idea exchange. 💡
🔗 More info and registration for this event:
https://lnkd.in/djnbS8Gc
Despite decades of policies aimed at protecting habitat, Europe's biodiversity has been declining precipitously since the 1960s. Today, EU Member States are trying something new. The EU's Nature Restoration Law is the first to legally bind nations to landscape restoration targets. It is an urgent response to critical conditions on the ground, but will it work?
I Mónica V., Carolina Halevy, and I explore this question through the lens of those being called upon to implement the law in a new piece for the International Land Conservation Network.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Eurosite - the European Land Conservation Network
⚠ Quick, there is one week left to register! ⚡
Join us in Durham this October for 3 days full of keynote speeches, workshops and a field trip to one of three beautiful landscapes in Northern England.
The programme follows four thematic lines: Conservation Policy, Finance, Management, and Partnerships and covers issues such as Nature-based Solutions, Peatlands, Blended Finance, Ecosystem Services, Rewilding, Nature Restoration Law, Nature friendly farming, among others. 🌿 🌾
📢 Have you registered for this year's Annual Meeting yet? 🖋
Every year we invite our members, partners, and supporters of all walks of life to join us to discuss the future of Nature Conservation in Europe. 🗣 🌾
Thanks to our hosts North Pennines National Landscape, this year we will be welcomed in the beautiful city of Durham in the UK, where we will have the chance to network among keynote speeches, workshops, and field trips to the beautiful landscapes of Northern England. 🌿
Tickets can be acquired via Eventbrite until 1 October. Eurosite members should ask for the member discount before registering.
🔗 Check our website for more information:
https://lnkd.in/essg4sT3
Muddy boots, barefoot, or apparently on snow shoes... There are many ways to walk through the bog, it seems! 👟 💦
Last week, we joined our Peat Pals for LIFE project partners on a Twinning visit to Store Mosse National Park in Sweden. 🦌 🇸🇪 For Eurosite, Twinning is a way to share experiences and learn from people doing similar work in different regions and contexts. 🤝
Our partners of Natuurmonumenten and Natuurpunt had a chance to see how a well managed raised bog in Sweden looks like, and took some lessons home to their own restoration areas in the Netherlands and Flanders.💡
Even the researchers from Wageningen University & Research, who will monitor the impact of restoration efforts, could gather some insights from this twinning trip to Store Mosse NP. 🧠
🔗 Read more about our project Peat Pals for LIFE:
https://peatpals.eu/enEurosite - the European Land Conservation Network, Wageningen University & Research, Natuurmonumenten, Natuurpunt, LIFE Programme
photos: Tamara Koekkoek, I Mónica Vidal I, Ine Kelderman
Will you join us tomorrow? 📅
On the 19 September at 10:00 CEST we will talk about how we can use technology📱to facilitate data collection of engaged citizen scientists with two illustrative examples from Greece. 🇬🇷
🛠 Developing tools for citizen science and stakeholder engagement in protected areas (IAS and biodiversity)
Despoina Vlachaki, Forester Environmentalist MSc, Project manager at HOMEOTECH Co.
📸 Enhancing Technology and Engagement in Protected Areas: From Trap Cameras to Management Platforms
Dimitrios Kostoudis, Software Engineer, President at Certed.eu
👇 Find the registration link in our event page below.
Eurosite - the European Land Conservation Network is hosting the Webinar: Technology for Citizen Science and Stakeholder Engagement. Make sure to join us on September 19! 📅 👉 Register Here: https://lnkd.in/d7wsY3qn!
Speakers:
1) Developing tools for citizen science and stakeholder engagement in protected areas (IAS and biodiversity).
Despoina Vlachaki, Forester Environmentalist MSc, Project manager at HOMEOTECH Co.
2) Enhancing Technology and Engagement in Protected Areas: From Trap Cameras to Management Platforms
Dimitrios Kostoudis, Software Engineer, President at Certed.eu
