The Carpathians belong to the most important European eco-regions. Biodiversity loss and increasing pressures threaten its outstanding natural values. Traditional approaches to resource management and nature conservation are no longer sufficient to guarantee long-lasting economic benefits and provision of ecosystem services.
Centralparks aims at improving management capacities of Carpathian protected areas. The project will support nature protection and local sustainable development, improve integrated environmental management capacities and policies, enhance transnational cooperation, and mitigate current threats and pressures to biodiversity. Policy support documents and tools, tailored for decision-makers and protected area managers, focus on enhancing biodiversity and landscape conservation, local sustainable tourism development, integrated nature conservation planning, habitat evaluation, ecosystem services, and communication with local communities.
Centralparks promotes joint actions for integrated management of biodiversity, including joint transnational thematic task forces, involving experts from Carpathian countries. The project will reconcile nature conservation and local socio-economic development in order to raise also the support and involvement of local communities.
Centralparks encourages transnational networking, aims at harmonizing approaches at the international level and will facilitate the harmonization of measures undertaken in border and transboundary-protected areas. Common strategies elaborated during the project will be submitted for the endorsement by the Carpathian Convention.
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10th Carpathian Convention Implementation Committee
11-13 December 2019, Budapest, Hungary
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Project Duration
Start Date
01.04.2019
End Date
31.03.2022
Project Partnership
1. European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen - Eurac Research (It) - Lead partner
2. The State Nature Conservancy of the Slovak Republic (SK) - Project Partner
3. NFA-Romsilva-Piatra Craiului National Park Administration R.A. (Ro) - Project Partner
4. Ekopsychology Society (PL) - Project Partner
5. Danube-Ipoly National Park Directorate (Hu) - Project Partner
6. Pronatur (SK) - Project PArtner
7. European Wilderness Society (AT) - Project Partner
8. Education and Information Centre of Bílé Karpaty Mountains (Cz) - Project PArtner
9. Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea – IMELS (It) - Associated Partner
10. Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic (SK) - Associated Partner
11. Ministry of Environment (PL) - Associated Partner
12. Ministry of Environment (Ro) - Associated Partner
13. DANUBEPARKS (AT) - Associated Partner
14. CEEweb for Biodiversity (Hu) - Associated Partner
15. European Beech Forest Network (De) - Associated Partner
16. Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine (UA) - Associated PArtner
Project Partners
Centralparks unites 7 project partners from 6 Central European countries and 1 partner from Romania, Eastern Europe.
