Evaluating the Wider Impact of the Pelican Way of LIFE Project
The Pelican Way of LIFE project focused on protecting the Dalmatian pelican across key sites in Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Ukraine.
Understanding the Socio-Economic and Ecosystem Impacts of Marine Litter Reduction Efforts
Marine litter, especially plastic waste, poses a serious threat to marine biodiversity, seabird populations, and coastal communities. The LIFE SeaBiL project aimed to reduce the impact of marine litter on seabirds through targeted actions in five pilot sites across Spain, France, and Portugal. To explore how such efforts might influence society and ecosystem services, we…
Wildlife on the Move: How LIFE SAFE‑CROSSING Made Europe’s Roads Safer for Lynx, Wolves and Bears
The LIFE SAFE-CROSSING project showed how carefully designed measures could reduce road impacts on Europe’s most threatened large carnivores while also benefiting local communities.
Bringing the Northern Bald Ibis Back: How LIFE Conservation Efforts Are Reviving a Lost European Icon
The LIFE Northern Bald Ibis project builds on earlier successes to help one of the world’s most endangered bird species return to Central Europe’s skies.
Our experts contribute to the baseline ecosystem services and socio-economic impact assessment of the LIFE EndemicPanalp project
The aim of the LIFE Endemic Panalp project is to improve the conservation status of six – mostly- endemic plant species and five species of insects as well as the condition of their habitats in Hungary and in Slovakia. Although all of the project sites are grassland habitats, they are facing different threats, including for…
Assessing the impacts of conserving Lesser Spotted Eagle in Latvia
The “Conservation arrangements for Lesser Spotted Eagle in Latvia” (LIFE AQPOM) project has focused on the complex conservation of the bird’s alarmingly declining population.
Assessing Italian forest sites of the LIFE4OakForest project
We carried out the baseline ecosystem services assessment of the Italian forest sites covered by the LIFE4OakForest project. Our assessment aimed to reveal the current conditions of the selected four ecosystem services (biomass, carbon sequestration, microhabitat maintenance and pest control). We found that on one of the two project areas, the volume of biomass – and therefore the…
Ecosystem services assessment in the framework of the LIFE4OakForest LIFE project
We conducted a baseline ecosystem services assessment on the Hungarian sites of the LIFE4OAKForest project to reveal the current conditions of the ecosystem services found on the project areas. Due to intensive human use, there are no natural oak forests left in Hungary and the biodiversity of these remaining oak forests are continuously declining. The aim of…
Socio-economic impact assessment of the Reason for Hope LIFE+ project
We assessed the socio-economic impacts of the “Reason for Hope” LIFE+ conservation project supported by the EU that helps to reintroduce the Northern Bald Ibis endangered bird species by involving many stakeholders and addressing relevant threats in Austria, Germany and Italy. The project also impacted on other species by tackling key threats such as poaching, electrocution and environmental crime. Our role was to…
Assessing socio-economic impacts of LIFE project saving raptor birds
We assessed the socio-economic impacts of a Hungarian conservation project supported by the EU’s LIFE framework, Securing prey sources for endangered Falco cherrug and Aquila heliaca population in the Carpathian basin. Our role was to find out how the main target groups of the project (hunters and farmers) benefited from the project outcomes, namely the increased…