{"id":9304,"date":"2024-06-03T10:44:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T08:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guiafc.es\/ganadores-del-premio-natura-2000\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T08:45:18","slug":"ganadores-del-premio-natura-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guiafc.es\/en\/ganadores-del-premio-natura-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Natura 2000 Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The biennial prize recognises outstanding management of\u202fNatura 2000\u202fsites. Natura 2000 glass award depicting blue birds, green motifs and the EU stars logo. The European Commission has announced the winners of the 2024 Natura 2000 Award at Green Week in Brussels on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The biennial Award, this year celebrating its tenth anniversary, recognises outstanding management of\u202fNatura 2000\u202fsites and showcases the network\u2019s added value of conserving nature for local communities and economies across the EU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With over 3,500 votes, the Polish initiative to protect the black stork, submitted by the Forest Experimental Station in Rog\u00f3w, won the hard-fought public vote and received the Citizens\u2019 Award. Followed closely in second place was the Belgian Wolf Fencing Team, for promoting peaceful coexistence with wolves. The Spanish 'Nature\u2019s guardians: enhancing effectiveness and efficiency of response to environmental crime\u2019 came in third. In the regular competition, winners were selected by a high-level jury of representatives from the Commission, Council, Committee of the Regions, NGO community and the users and landowners associations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Estonian Fund for Nature received the Conservation on Land Award with their initiative to restore 8,000 hectare of mire habitats, whereas the Marine Conservation prize went to Portuguese NGO Ocean Alive, for restoring and protecting \u2018blue forests\u2019 (seagrass meadows).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wild Atlantic Nature project convinced the jury with their \u2019Ground-breaking agri-environment payment scheme for farmers in Natura 2000 areas in Ireland\u2019 (Working together for Nature category), as did the Spanish-French initiative \u2018Grazing to preserve Natura 2000 habitats and species in the Pyrenees\u2019 led by the HAZI Foundation (Cross-Border Cooperation category).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Italian Artetica Cultural Association took home the Communication prize with their community engagement and citizen science initiative \u2018From the woods to the web and back\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biennial prize recognises outstanding management of\u202fNatura 2000\u202fsites. Natura 2000 glass award depicting blue birds, green motifs and the EU stars logo. The European Commission has announced the winners of the 2024 Natura 2000 Award at Green Week in Brussels on Thursday. 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