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Keeping in touch
At present the best ways to get up-to-date news from EAI are to follow us on Twitter @EFAtlanticIsles or to sign up for E-News via the link on our landing page. E-News Bulletins are published regularly; No.55 was published in May 2016. We will update the web pages as time and resources allow. Details of […]
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UK Marine Protected Areas: Webinar Report
The purpose of this webinar was to review progress across the UK in establishing marine protected areas, especially to compare the different approaches taken in the constituent countries of the UK. Presentations and discussion focused on the legislative background, where the designation process has got to, what has been designated so far and where, what […]
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Webinar: Marine Protected Areas in the UK
Our next webinar “Progress towards Marine Protected Areas in the UK” takes place from 14h00 – 15h30 BST on Wednesday 13th May 2015. What’s the webinar about? The conservation of the marine environment has been rising up the agenda both domestically and internationally in recent years. There has been progress across the UK in establishing […]
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Webinar Report: Health & well-being: the role of protected areas
The role of protected areas for human health and well-being was examined in an EAI webinar held on behalf of the EUROPARC Federation’s Health & Protected Areas Working Group on 15th December 2014. Examples came from Scotland, France and Finland. Promoting Green Health in Scotland was the title of Bridget Finton’s presentation. She presented the […]
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Nature Outlook: scenarios for the future of nature in the EU
In early December in Brussels a group of organisations, including EUROPARC Atlantic Isles, came together in the first of a series of workshops intended to look at European Union nature policies in preparation for a council of ministers meeting in 2016 under the leadership of the Dutch, who will hold the presidency at that point. […]
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Webinar: Health & Protected Areas
EUROPARC Atlantic Isles, together with the EUROPARC Federation’s Health & Protected Areas Working Group, is holding a webinar on Monday 15th December 2014 from 10-11.30 GMT on the subject of “Health and Well-being: the Role of Protected Areas. Speakers include Bridget Finton (Scottish Natural Heritage), Mélissa Desbois (Espaces Naturels Regionaux, France) and Veikko Virkkunen (Metsahallitus […]
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Nordic-Baltic & Atlantic Isles Sections’ Health and Protected Areas Seminar
Colleagues from the EUROPARC Nordic-Baltic and Atlantic Isles Sections have been working together on the subject of health and protected areas over the past two years. This collaboration continues at a joint seminar to be held in Haapsalu, Estonia, on 3rd and 4th December 2014. Participants will have the opportunity to work with protected areas […]
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A review of EUROPARC 2014 in Killarney
Inspiring networking More than 250 protected area professionals from across Europe converged on Killarney at the end of September for three and a half very full days of networking, presentations, workshops, field trips and determining the future work of the EUROPARC Federation. The subject of this year’s conference was Understanding the Value of Nature. As […]
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Our next webinar – the EU’s LIFE programme
EUROPARC Atlantic Isles warmly invites members to our next webinar on The EU LIFE Programme at 10h00 – 11h30 BST, on Thursday 5th June 2014 What’s the webinar about? The national contact point for the LIFE programme in the UK, Catherine Holt of Beta Technology, will present a comprehensive overview of the new EU Life […]
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Forthcoming activities of the EUROPARC Federation
The EUROPARC Federation has several activities in the coming months of interest to members of the EUROPARC network: EUROPARC Conference 2014 This year’s annual conference takes place in Killarney, Ireland, from 28th September to 1st October hosted by the National Parks and Wildlife Service. The theme is Understanding the Value of Nature. European Day […]
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