Description:
The LIFE CAÑADAS project aims to implement conservation and restoration actions that will enhance the role of livestock trails in territorial connectivity, as well as disseminate their important functional role, understood as green infrastructure that, properly managed, can act as a reservoir of biodiversity and provide ecosystem services and ecological connectivity within and between spaces of the Natura 2000 Network and other protected areas. The project, with a budget of 1,848,000 euros, of which the European Commission co-finances 60%, runs between 2019 and 2024.
If you want to know more, visit the website: https://www.lifecanadas.es/
Financing Entity: European Commission (Life Program)
Participating Entities: Autonomous University of Madrid (coordinator), General Directorate of Agriculture, Livestock and Food of the Community of Madrid, General Directorate of Forest Policy and Natural Spaces of Castilla La Mancha, Campo Abierto Association, SEO/BirdLife.
RESEARCHERS
Autonomous University of Madrid
Francisco M. Azcárate
Hevia Violet
José A. González
César A. López-Santiago
Paloma Alcorlo
Cristina Mata
Juan Malo
Contact: Alejandro González (lifecanadasuam @ gmail.com)