Life Prognoses
The project
In order to stop the continuing decline in primary forest area, the Life Prognoses project has set itself the goal of raising awareness of the importance of the ecosystem services provided by the primary forest ecosystem and communicating this to political decision-makers and the general public.
The UNESCO World Heritage network currently includes 41 primeval beech forest protected areas in 12 European countries. Primeval beech forests in 8 countries are being analysed as part of Life Prognoses. In Austria, the Kalkalpen National Park, which is also a partner in the project, is home to the largest primeval beech forest in the Alps with an area of 5,252 hectares. Other test regions of the project are located in Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Romania, the Czech Republic and Ukraine.
Our activities in the project
The project focuses on the UNESCO World Heritage sites "Ancient beech forests and primeval beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe". A first milestone is the standardised mapping of these primeval beech forests with the help of terrestrial surveys and remote sensing methods. To this end, the DIGITAL Institute is analysing a wide variety of remote sensing data for a holistic and comprehensive survey. Various ecosystem services such as carbon storage, biodiversity, ecotourism and others will then be quantified for all areas in order to record and visualise the immense value and diverse benefits of primeval beech forests.
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Project partners
Koordination:
Sonian Forest Foundation
Weitere Partner:
E.C.O. Institute of Ecology
Kalkalpen National Park
INBO Research Institute Nature and Forest
Central Balkan National Park
Czech University of Life Sciences
City of Angermünde
Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development
Northwest German Forest Research Institute
Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park
University of Tuscia
Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning
University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty
Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
Fördergeber
This project is funded by the European Union under the LIFE programme grant agreement number LIFE20 PRE/BE/000011 and co-financed by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology.
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