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.

Safeguarding the functionality of transnationally important ecological corridors in the Danube basin
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

Project Partners

Name Type Email 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
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Project News

  • SaveGREEN - Closing a chapter: SaveGREEN holds final conference on ecological connectivity in Vienna
    - 25-12-2022
    Closing a chapter: SaveGREEN holds final conference on ecological connectivity in Vienna

    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...

  • SaveGREEN - Ukrainian Expert Team’s Transnational Experience Exchange Workshop
    - 19-12-2022
    Ukrainian Expert Team’s Transnational Experience Exchange Workshop

    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...

  • SaveGREEN - Training event on environmental impact assessment during transport infrastructure construction in Ukraine
    - 19-12-2022
    Training event on environmental impact assessment during transport infrastructure construction in Ukraine

    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...

  • SaveGREEN - EVENT INVITATION November 30th: International seminar from Ukraine (Transnational workshop)
    - 28-11-2022
    EVENT INVITATION November 30th: International seminar from Ukraine (Transnational workshop)

    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,...

  • SaveGREEN - Presents monitoring results on wildlife-crossing facilities to Bulgarian regional and national media
    - 28-11-2022
    Presents monitoring results on wildlife-crossing facilities to Bulgarian regional and national media

    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...

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