Join us

EU TARGETS

We contribute to the following EU Targets & Strategies

  • Management of Natura 2000 areas
  • Contributing to Natura 2000 Biogeographical Processes
  • Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
  • Water Framework Directive (WFD)
  • EU Biodiversity Strategy
  • Farm-to-Fork Strategy

Working Areas

Working areas of Landcare organisations

  • Bringing together farmers, land users, political decision makers, environmentalists & communities
  • Regenerating biodiverse and resilient ecosystems in & outside Natura 2000 sites and other protected areas
  • Raising public awareness on sustainable farming practices that provide healthy food, as well as other public goods and ecosystem services
  • Elaborating good-practice-based payment schemes for agricultural measures that protect our public goods biodiversity, water, soil and climat

Supporting and advising farmers & land users on

  • national and EU agri-environmental measures within the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
  • good practices that foster species protection & habitat restoration
  • new income sources for agricultural value chains like direct marketing, nature conservation, landscape management, renewable energies, eco-tourism, participation in research and others
  • livestock protection measures in rural areas for better human-wildlife coexistence