The project participated and was presented in the Online Thematic Info Day entitled “LIFE Funding Program and Forests: Reality, Challenges and Needs in Forest Management in Greece the 21st Century “, co-organized on November 27, 2020 by the Green Fund, the Greek Task Force and the Greek Biotope/Wetland Centre and was attended by 331 participants.
The event had two distinct parts. In the first part the national and EU priorities on forest policy, management, conservation and protection of our forest ecosystems were presented, as well as forest management research. At the same time, the issues of forest management and governance, to which the LIFE Program has contributed in Greece since 1992, were reviewed.
In the second part recent projects of current and integrated LIFE forest projects, the implementation of which tackles the major current environmental challenges: climate change, wildfires, floods, management – protection – reconstruction, genetic monitoring, were presented.
The material of the conference are available here and the special presentation for the project here (in English).