Main project objective is to raise the resilience of ecosystems under most pressure due to climate change by improving the knowledge and competencies of stakeholders for their management and implementation of restoration measures. the project will focus primarily on forests and wetlands, which are characterised by a major contribution to climate change mitigation. All selected project areas are Natura 2000 areas, the target qualification species and habitat types of which are in an unfavourable conservation status and have suffered damage due to climate change in the last decade or are further threatened by climate change. Project specific objectives are:
1)To raise knowledge and awareness of stakeholders on importance of protecting and conserving ecosystems and their ecosystem services to mitigate and adapt to effects of climate change, and to strengthen the stakeholders' competencies and participation in the management of ecosystems; this will be achieved by implementing an education and awareness campaign for different target groups;
2)To improve the state of ecosystems affected by climate change; this will be achieved with concrete measures to improve the state of conservation of ecosystems in 5 project areas;
3)To develop new approaches to planning the management of selected ecosystems by integrating ES; this will be achieved by developing and validating two ecosystem management models – a uniform management model for individual ecosystems and a complex management model for cultural landscape that combines several types of ecosystems.
The main long-term impact of the project will be the improved status of forest ecosystems and wetlands affected by climate change and their improved resilience to climate change due to improved knowledge and skills of stakeholders for their management and developed new management models that consider ecosystems services and strengthen efforts to protect and restore biodiversity or species and habitat diverse ecosystems.