Funding topic 11: Nature conservation and sustainable use of nature in working landscapes and protected areas

Cultural landscapes emphasizing nature are of great importance for biodiversity, which is highly dependent on the type of management. The intensification and standardization of land use have led to a loss of biodiversity that continues unabated to this day, and which must be stopped with appropriate measures in close cooperation with all stakeholders. Extensively managed landscapes can play an important role as networking elements between these useful landscapes and protected natural landscapes and are to be promoted through suitable concepts of sustainable regional development and concrete implementation projects.

There is a further need for action to ensure or increase the effectiveness of protected areas beyond what is possible under regulatory law by taking appropriate measures. In doing so, the requirements of current social as well as ecological developments must be met.

Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to:

• Concepts and tools for bundling and prioritizing regional nature conservation goals and operationalizing them at the landscape and farm level, also in the context of sustainable regional development;
• Develop and test biotope management measures and tools for extensively used and/or semi-natural habitats and protected areas;
• Further development and application of innovative technologies for the conservation-oriented optimization of agricultural and forestry production processes;
• new forms of information and knowledge provision for land users, advisors and specialized authorities, with the participation of civil society actors;
• Development and implementation of biotope network systems and structures and of species and biotope protection measures;
• Concepts and tools for wilderness development;
• Projects with a special focus on children and young people that focus on working through challenges in biodiversity conservation using innovative and model teaching methods.

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