KOHESIO · Q4299838 · AT

Restoring and managing ecological corridors in mountains as the green infrastructure in the Danube basin

In order to cope with the fast and increasing habitat fragmentation in the Danube region. ConnectGREEN aims at improving the ecological connectivity between natural habitats, especially between Natura 2000 sites and other protected area categories in the Carpathian ecoregion of transnational relevance. As a first step, the project will develop a Carpathian-wide methodology and based on this it will identify core areas and ecological corridors used by large carnivores as umbrella species. Existing tools, instruments and frameworks will be explored and assessed to find ways together with spatia…

Co-funding: the EU contributes €2.2M toward a total project cost of €2.6M — a co-funding rate of 85%, with the remainder covered by national, regional or private sources.

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