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The Commission welcomes the provisional agreement just reached between the European Parliament and the Council on the Nature Restoration Law.

Issue 612: This study explores participatory fire-management strategies, including landscape values from experts and local people, to strengthen wildfire-prone regions by creating resilient landscapes that protect ecological and social functions.

Issue 612: Researchers have developed a framework for evaluating technologies that reduce marine plastic pollution.

Issue 612: Species that rely on freshwater habitat are declining in Europe. This study finds that biodiversity within smaller sites in the European Natura 2000 network is highly impacted by the land use of surrounding areas.

This new roadmap will ensure the effective implementation of the Forest Partnership.

Over 500 middle and high school students have already completed Project Hero’s Wolf Quests that explore the complex relationship between humans and wolves. Through interactive games and real-world case studies, students create innovative solutions for coexistence. Ready to embark on the Quest?

After facing extinction twice, lynx in the Dinaric-SE Alpine region are getting another chance! The LIFE Lynx project is stabilising their population by relocating healthy lynx from Romania and Slovakia. Lynx numbers are rising, and even several litters of offspring were observed in the last years!

Ready for an adventure in the wild? Austria's Lynx Trail invites hikers for a 220 km route through natural forests where the European lynx still roams. Connecting three protected areas, this trail blends ecotourism with conservation and received a wave of attention from the media and tourists.

For more than 30 years, the SCALP project has been uniting Alpine countries to monitor lynx populations. By developing the now well-known SCALP Criteria, it has standardised how we record the animals’ occurrence, which has then been adapted to other large carnivore species such as wolves and bears.