Legambiente Lombardia

Legambiente Lombardia

Founded:

1980

Biogeographical regions covered:

Continental, Alpine

Collaboration with farmers:

10 per year

Main activities:

• Nature conservation & biodiversity/species protection
• Protecting cultural and natural values in the region
• Creation of income and employment in rural areas

Collaboration:

• with 7 European countries: France, Germany, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Spain

Legambiente Lombardia is one of the 20 regional offices of the non-profit organisation Legambiente, the most widespread environmental associations in Italy with more than 115,000 members, which support a wide range of activities throughout the country. Legambiente Lombardia implements projects with more than 100 local groups in the Lombardy region. Its members engage in activities such as raising awareness, sharing information and educating on scientific issues. Its environmental campaigns, such as “Clean up the world” or “People4soil” are well known for involving thousands of volunteers. 

Legambiente Lombardia developed several projects dealing with biodiversity protection and conservation in the entire region. Since the beginning of the 2000s the association has been working on land conservation and management with a “land stewardship” approach. It has developed activities and initiatives to promote and valorise the local biodiversity with citizens’ involvement, in cooperation with municipalities and local volunteers, creating “Retenatura system” and implementing the project “Think Green - land stewardship in the Lombardy”, which was spread to other regions in order to enhance landowners’ involvement in nature conservation in all the country, encouraging an active and positive role, above all in protected areas. 

Legambiente Lombardia participated as partner in the LIFE project “Landlife, boosting land stewardship as a conservation tool in the Western Mediterranean Arch” (2011-2014), which dealt with the dissemination of the Land stewardship concept in Europe and, at the same, aimed to enlarge the landowners’ network involved in the Land stewardship programme.

At regional level, the association has been developing several projects on ecological networks and biodiversity conservation, focusing on dissemination activities and the involvement of local people.