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Sustainable tourism practitioners meet
15th October, 2012
EAI’s sustainable tourism network met again on Thursday 11th October in Birmingham. The focus of the day was to look at how protected landscapes in the UK are developing their relationships with tourism businesses in the context of the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism. Discussion was lively and complex, yet also productive. Challenges, difficulties and […]
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Looking ahead to this week’s Charter networking meeting
8th October, 2012
EAI’s sustainable tourism network meets in Birmingham on Thursday 11th October. The network brings together UK Charter Parks – holders of the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas – and others with an interest in sustainable tourism in protected landscapes and enables the sharing of expertise and experience. This meeting will focus on […]
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Young rangers define their ideal activities
13th August, 2012
At the first meeting of our new project group ‘Establishing a Young Ranger Network’ held on the 8th and 9th August 2012 in the Mendip Hills AONB young rangers played an active role in developing plans for the network. Matthew McDonald-Smith, young ranger from the Northumberland Coast AONB, focused on rock climbing, with a morning […]
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EAI’s Summer E-News published
25th July, 2012
EAI published its summer E-News today, with a round-up of information from across the UK and Europe. Featured in this edition are the opening of nominations for the UK Landscape Award and details of new LIFE+ projects that have been given the go-ahead in the UK and Ireland. There’s also news on policy developments, publications, […]
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EUROPARC 2012 – reconnecting society and nature
16th July, 2012
This year’s EUROPARC Federation annual conference explores the theme of re-connecting society and biodiversity, with a particular focus on the management of protected areas to mark the 20th anniversary of Natura 2000 and the LIFE programme. The event takes place from Monday 22nd through to Thursday 25th October in the city of Genk, close to […]
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Exchange opportunities in volunteering
13th July, 2012
The Grundtvig project “Volunteer Management in European Parks”, in which EAI is a project partner, provides opportunities in its tutoring work package for volunteer coordinators or volunteers to spend time in a partner protected area, to tutor the partner organisation in aspects of volunteer management or to learn from them. Participants can either travel to […]
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UK Landscape Award 2012 open for nominations
13th July, 2012
The second UK Landscape Award opened for entries on 2nd July to recognise landscape projects that have helped people create better places to live; and to celebrate the efforts of all those who made it happen. The winner of the UK Award will represent the UK as its entry to the Landscape Award of the […]
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Latest EAI E-News published
30th June, 2012
The latest edition of EAI E-News was published on 29th June with a round-up of news from our network across the UK and Europe, including working group and project news, policy developments relevant to protected landscapes, and of course diary dates and funding opportunities. The previous edition of EAI E-news was published on 6th June, […]
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New ideas for volunteering
25th May, 2012
A three-day training event for volunteer coordinators in protected areas held at the Gilwell Park conference centre and hosted by EAI concluded on Wednesday. Organised as part of the Volunteer Management in European Parks project and funded by the Grundtvig / EU Life Long Learning programme, the training seminar brought together participants from seven European […]
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Review of the Year 2011-12
15th May, 2012
Promoting good practice Coastal and Marine Chaired by board member Phil Dyke, the EAI coastal and marine working group held a successful networking meeting in Birmingham in July 2011. Issues explored included marine planning and seascape character assessment. The group is also working to promote the Manifesto for Coasts and Seascapes, published in April 2011 […]
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