LAFERIA

Another week, another work package! #LAFERIAWPs

WP4, led by the University of Rostock, explores what drives or hinders the reintroduction of landscape features, a key in shaping shaping sustainable land management.

Watch the video to learn more 👇

🗺️ As this week's #LAFERIAWPs highlights WP3: learning from past landscape feature reintroductions this is a perfect moment to share our survey again!

🌲 Help us understand what works (and what doesn’t) by contributing your examples.

📝 Fill in the survey: bit.ly/44Bgc17

This week on #LAFERIAWPs: WP3, ‘Learning from existing initiatives of reintroduction of landscape features’.

🔍 WP3, led by EV ILVO, focuses on identifying factors driving the success or failure of existing initiatives for landscaper features reintroduction.

Find out more in the video below 👇

On July 26, we celebrated #WorldMangroveDay.

💚Mangroves are crucial for biodiversity, supporting life both on land and in water, and helping fight climate change.

Find out more about why inclusive ecological approaches are the key to their restoration👇

💧 Wetlands are an important landscape feature, supporting biodiversity and providing ecosystem services such as wildlife habitat, water quality improvement and flood control.

Read the @keybiodiversity.bsky.social 's latest brief on 'Conserving and Restoring Inland Waters using KBAs' below👇

🚶‍♀️ Onward with our #LAFERIAWPs journey!

WP2, led ‪@helsinki.fi‬, dives into the impact of landscape features on biodiversity, ecosystem services, farm economics & socio-ecological systems.
🎥 Watch the video to learn more about WP2 👇

👀 LAFERIA's first campaign is live!

🔦 Each week, we’re spotlighting a Work Package through the #LAFERIAWPs series.

🗺️ This week: WP1
Led by @w-u-r.bsky.social , it maps landscape features across EU farming systems to track progress toward the 10% cover target.

More in the video below 👇

📢 LAFERIA is collecting initiatives!

We’re mapping examples of initiatives to (re)introduce landscape features in agricultural areas across Europe 🌱

🔍 Help us learn from both success and struggle!

📝 Fill out the survey: bit.ly/44Bgc17
🔗 Learn more: laferia-project.eu/news/laferia...

📢 Sharing a great resource for those digging into #biodiversity data!

If you’ve used #SIBiLS (#BiodiversityPMC) to explore scientific literature on #species traits or #biotic interactions, your feedback can help improve it.

Take the survey👇

🔔 LAFERIA’s first press release is here!

An official intro to the project; from the kick-off to the website launch and dedicated stakeholder community space.

Read the full release 👇

📰 EurekAlert!: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
📰 AlphaGalileo: www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-D...

💥 You can now officially visit LAFERIA's website!

The launch of the website provides an overview of all things LAFERIA and will be updated regularly with project news and activities.

💻 Visit the LAFERIA website to find out everything you need to know about the project: laferia-project.eu

YouTube video by LAFERIA About LAFERIA: A Conversation with Project Coordinator Francisco Moreira

Meet LAFERIA’s project coordinator, @fmoreira65.bsky.social.

🤝​🌳​Francisco shared an overview of the project, reflected on what he sees as the biggest challenge to fulfilling LAFERIA’s mission, and offered insight into the case studies.

📹​Hear what he has to say: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI53...

Happy International Day for Biodiversity! 🌍

Only 5 years left to meet the EU Strategy for Biodiversity targets, including dedicating 10% of agricultural land to landscape features, the heart of LAFERIA's mission.

#TransformativeChange4Biodiversity

Image of two white birds sitting in tree branches. LAFERIA project logo. Text reads: "1 April, Celebrating international bird day"

🕊️On 1 April we celebrate #InternationalBirdDay!

Reintroducing landscape features preserves biodiversity and provides birds with habitat, supporting a healthier ecosystem.

​🔗​Find out more about International Bird Day with the @undp.org: bit.ly/42mEAU9

YouTube video by LAFERIA LAFERIA Kick-Off Meeting

Let’s take a look back at LAFERIA’s Kick-Off meeting!

👥Watch the video from the two-day event to experience the energy, enthusiasm and hard work brought by all participants, both in-person and online.

#LAFERIAlaunch

​📽️​Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd5u...

🌍🌿 Celebrating World Rewilding Day!

Rewilding lets nature take its course, preserving wildlife species. Reintroducing landscape features boosts biodiversity, providing habitats for plants, animals, and insects. 🌱🐦🦋

🔗Find out more about World Rewilding Day: bit.ly/4hFu7rz

#RewildingTogether

The EU economy's dependency on nature → DG ENV submitted a policy request to the EC Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity (KCBD) to produce an estimate of the EU economy's dependency on nature by carrying out a similar analysis to that develo...

🌍Once again, the importance of ecosystem services is underscored, as a new JRC study finds that "between 19% and 36% of the EU’s gross value added (GVA) is found to be highly dependent on ecosystem services".

🔗Find out more: publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

🚪Final breakout rooms for the day!

The cosortium has split into 2 rooms (WP1+2 & WP3+4) to engage in more in-depth conversations, discuss next steps, task division & more.

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3 rooms are created and the partners divide into 3 groups, passing through each room.

📍The rooms discuss stakeholder engagement on an international, national and local level respectively.

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👥The consortium comes back together to discuss the design and implementation of a participatory stakeholder engagement framework.

The session is led by @theopaquet.bsky.social from @eeb.org.

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The partners divide in 2 groups.

One group focuses on the case studies from Portugal, Germany, Sweden & Bulgaria and the other on Finland, Netherlands & Belgium.

Each room has specific questions to dive into, and once answered the groups change rooms.

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🇩🇪 @guypeer.bsky.social ( @ufz.de / iDiv) introduces the Leipzig case study in Germany.

The region is home to 10,000 ha of agricultural land, 1,838 ha of which is owned by the city of Leipzig.

“What can be the role of cities in promoting landscape feature reintroduction?” 🌇

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🇧🇪 Introduced by Marlinde Koopmans (EV ILVO), is the Belgian case study - the Brabantse Wouden region.

🌳The Brabantse Wouden region is a national park with 3 large forests, smaller forests & valleys.

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🇳🇱 Moving onto the Netherlands!

Irene Bouwma (WUR) introduces the Delta area of the Netherlands, dominant with cropland (potatoes, beet, wheat) 🌾🥔 & some animal husbandry(dairy, meat, eggs)🥚.

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🇧🇬 Bulgaria’s case study, introduced by Yanka Kazakova (STEP) will be taking place in the Plovdiv region, where the agricultural system is predominantly arable land (cereals, rice, vegetables) 🌾 & vineyards 🍇.

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🇸🇪Senad Osmanovic (HU) takes us to Sweden and more particularly Kalmar County - a region which includes the second largest island in Sweden.

“It’s important to look at landscape as a whole, not just seperate landscape features.”

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🇫🇮 @pasivalkama.bsky.social from @syke.fi talks about
the case of River Raaseporinjoki in Finland, where the predominant form of landscape features is streams, ditches, wetlands, ponds… 🏞️

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🇵🇹EDIA starts off the round of case study introductions with the Portugal case study.

❓What landscape features can be found in the area & what are the key challenges ahead?

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Day 2, kick-off by Francisco Moreira #LAFERIAlaunch. While outside European serin is singing, discussing small landscape features in Agricultural areas. @laferia-project.eu

Yanka Kazakova (STEP) opens the floor by giving an introduction to the case studies as a learning platform.

❓What information will we get from the case study regions & what will we give back?

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