Large carnivores and the EU LIFE programme

Navarro, Alberto (avtor), Köhncke, Arnulf (avtor), Oliveira, Teresa (avtor), Krofel, Miha (avtor), López-Bao, José V. (avtor)

Most large carnivore populations have increased in recent decades in Europe. Along with the adoption of the EU Habitats Directive in 1992, the EU launched a funding program entirely dedicated to environment, nature protection and climate action, the European LIFE programme. Here, we explore the investment of this programme in large carnivore conservation across Europe, from its implementation in 1992 to 2020 (28 years), with respect to budgets, species considered, economic factors and the geographical distribution of the projects. A total of 153 projects have directly or indirectly targeted large carnivores, with a total budget of ca. 338.2 M€ (EU contribution >194.1 M€). Despite the transboundary character of most large carnivore populations, only 5.8% of projects worked across national borders. Large carnivores did not receive equal attention within the programme, and EU Member States from Southern Europe accumulated 77.7% of the projects. The region of Abruzzo (Italy) has been granted with the highest number of projects (n=28), followed by Castilla y León (Spain, 16 projects). At national level, the per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) did not correlate with the number of LIFE projects granted, but the proportion of the GDP invested in the protection of biodiversity and landscapes (positively). However, at the level of European regions (NUTS 2), those regions with lower average per capita GDP were more frequently granted with LIFE projects. We discuss several factors affecting the distribution of projects across Europe, and we make recommendations for future investments in maximizing large carnivore conservation under this program.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: Europe, conservation, LIFE programme, funding, Canis lupus, Gulo gulo, Lynx lynx, Lynx pardinus, Ursus arctos
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: BF - Biotehniška fakulteta
• Status publikacije: V tisku
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Datum objave: 26.04.2024
• Leto izida: 2024
• Št. strani: 17 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. , article no. ǂe02965
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-156028
• UDK: 630*15
• ISSN pri članku: 2351-9894
• DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e02965
• COBISS.SI-ID: 194169859
• Datum objave v RUL: 29.04.2024

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Global ecology and conservation
• Založnik: Elsevier
• ISSN: 2351-9894
• COBISS.SI-ID: 520381209

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Nekomercialno-Brez predelav 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.sl
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Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: Evropa, naravovarstvo, program LIFE, financiranje, volk, rosomah, evrazijski ris, iberski ris, rjavi medved

Projekti

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: N1-0163-2020
• Naslov: Vpogled v medvrstne in znotrajvrstne interakcije med prostoživečimi mačkami v Evropi in Afriki

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P4-0059-2020
• Naslov: Gozd, gozdarstvo in obnovljivi gozdni viri