European Fundend Projects

  • ID:
    projects-569
  • fiwar:
    LIFE99 NAT/GR/006499
  • Project_Acronym:
    Calcareous fens
  • Project_Name:
    Actions for the protection of the calcareous fens
  • Funding Authority:
    LIFE
  • Call for proposals:
    Nature
  • Focus Area:
    Freshwater,Public and Stakeholders participation
  • Begin Date:
    1999-11-01
  • End Date:
    2003-10-31
  • Status:
    Completed
  • Budget:
    No data
  • Description:
    The project aims at the rehabilitation of the calcareous fens to a favourable conservation status, either through direct actions on the specific habitat type, or through more general actions on the entire lake. The expected results are: Protect the habitat from drying, by stabilising the water level. Ensure the Trichonis lake water quality. Protect the lake’s shore from erosion (this threat proved to be non-relevant, and this objective was dropped). Ensure the protection of the habitat type from expanding agricultural activities. Increase public awareness. Stimulate environmental concerns of the communes and other competent authorities and their active participation in the conservation of the targeted habitat. The stabilisation of the lake’s water level will be achieved through the monitoring and control of the water level, based on a water management plan. For the reduction of water pollution levels, the project foresees the pilot control of urban and rural wastes, through the collection of solid wastes, the installation of an automatic water quality monitoring station and the increase of public awareness concerning the disposal of wastes and the use of fertilisers, while for the minimisation of the lake shore erosion the project had planned to develop artificial reed embankments (action cancelled). In order to protect the fens from the expansion of agricultural lands, the project has foreseen the mapping of the habitat’s boundaries and their fencing. In addition, it plans to rehabilitate the habitat through the planting of Cladium mariscus and Carex sp., once the water level is stabilised, and through reedbed management. All the aforementioned actions are to be accompanied by a public awareness campaign on the value of the Calcareous fens targeting farmers, the local population, visitors and schoolchildren.
  • Resource:
    https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/project/LIFE99-NAT-GR-006499/actions-for-the-protection-of-the-calcareous-fens
  • Inland water types:
    Lake', 'Wetlands', 'Urban water'