Concrete actions for biodiversity in the villages of NKBR
Description of the project
Villages or other rural communities are engaged in the planning and implementation of concrete actions for conserving species, biotopes, and cultural environments and to use gained knowledge on developing their community. Villages are also encouraged and helped in the preparation of new environmental projects and in applying for funding.
There are already many kinds of solutions and tools for rural environmental and climate challenges, they just need to be made better aware of and used by operators. Community-based, locally implemented measures to improve the state of the environment support the achievement of environmental and climate goals. What is done and learned together is also more easily transferred to individuals and households for their own use and thus spreads into everyday life and practices.
Organised workshop topics vary from making biochar to preventing invasive species from spreading, creating living environments for birds and insects to planting seedlings and building traditional wooden and stone fences. Actions organised by the villages include for example creating communal gardens, restoration of nature paths and removal of invasive species.
Results and effects
- During the project or due to the environmental actions made, the state of the area's environment will concretely improve.
- Villages or other communities within the biosphere reserve will take part and at least one concrete action will be implemented with each participant.
- Projects aid communities in project planning specially to take environmental aspects into consideration thus aiding in getting further environmentally friendly projects in the villages.
- Theme events are organised to promote sustainable way of life.
Study visits to Archipelago Sea Biosphere (with 30 locals and representatives of actors will take part) and some other European Biosphere will be organized. The aim is to increase collaboration between different actors and biosphere reserves.
Focal points:
- promotes and implements concrete actions in villages that increase and cherish biodiversity (1)
- engages locals to plan what kind of environmental actions they would like to implement in their environment. The concrete actions are implemented in collaboration with the locals themselves. (4)
- promoting sustainable ways of life and sharing good practises that people can implement in their everyday life (2)
- offering concrete workshops that educate people in the rural areas on what kind of actions can promote biodiversity, restore environment, and cherish local traditions (3)
- organising a study visit to a European biosphere reserve to ignite new cooperation and networking between biospheres (6)