There are 395 projects that match your search.
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Poland
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2005
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30,460.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/05/14 |
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The main objectives of this project are:
- to increase attractiveness of Suwalki Region (Suwalszczyzna) based on development of tourist infrastructure based on promotion of bike tourism and maintenance of place of interests;
- to protect nature ( ... )
que postglacial landscape through well organized tourist movement in area of special natural value;
- to convince local community that active participation in this project might bring extra income from fast growing bike tourism and associated services
- development of network of well marked bike routes and associsted with some recreation small architecture;
- propagation of active healthy
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2005
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31,013.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: POL/04/28 |
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Monasteries of different clauses established in Poland from XI Century
were places from which message and know-how about herb vegetable gardens and orchads with old varieties of fruit trees , of great genetic pool,was spread around.This uniqness ( ... )
densated biodiversity in 218 monasteries is presently under threat ,slow decline, not in monasteries , of low profile in today monasteries.
Project aims in preservation of existing genetic resources (necessary detailed inventory), restoration of orchads and gardens;trainings for nuns and monks on ecological agriculture and gardening;inventory of old recipes;creation (or reconstruction) of local
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Poland
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2005
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49,950.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/05/12 |
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Monopolistic state railway company PKP is reducing gradually many local and reguional train connection, situation of a local narrow-gauge railways operating previously as cargo and passenger carrier is under threat.Local NGO is extending ( ... )
operations (now 5 tracks in Poland) by bringing back (being owner) public transportation services.
Projects targets are to extend capacity (load, speed) by renovation of the track and construction of biofuel refinery (based on rape-seed oil and used oil from pizzerias,restaurants etc) in order to sustain and expand own operations based on own fuel resources, not exposed to external market
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2005
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15,473.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/05/16 |
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Project was awarded in the contest organized by WFOSiGW and GEF/SGP for biodiversity protection in Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship.
Project is addressing two problems:
1. active protection of seminatural meadows and pastures and involvement of ( ... )
s in restitution of extensive use of this land.Project will use existing a very new experience of impelmentation eco-agrosystem of assistance from EU funds (1st year) with a main focus on a proper management.Collection of lesson learned during the first period and analysis done together with experts from the sczecin University and agricultural adviser should ended with a simple, readable
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2005
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45,030.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/05/13 |
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Bialowieza Primeval Forest is exposed to the threat of drying caused by melioration works on Belarussian side as well as some regulatory works on small rivers in the Polish part and to continous dry summers in past 10-15 years - systhematic ( ... )
ng of ground water level is observed..It affects feeding grounds for black stork(Ciconia nigra).Also not respected protection zones around nests in old tree stage by forersters (exploatation) bring threat.
Activities: inventory of black stork's nests and then creation of protection zones;construction of 5 small river shootings on Perebel River in order to slown down water flow - all necessary
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2005
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49,850.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: POL/04/15 |
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Krasna River Valley with established thanks to previous GEF/SGP grant is natural eco-tourism back-up for Voivodship centre Kielce with nearly 300.000 inhabitatats;establishment of the reserve which should be enlarged, took a lot of efforts to ( ... )
e local people that nature preservation can generate extra income for them through growing tourism; previous activities concentrated on nature value, this project is aiming in preparation of local community for growing tourism and genereation of income by special, local products based on cattle,sheep,goose,poultry raising of forgotten, on the RED LIST of FAO, local species of genetic value
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2005
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37,334.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/05/01 |
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Extensive farming present in area of project intervention kept high biological diversity, reachness of birds and plants.Changes in agriculture, rejection of milk cow breeding caused immidiate expansion of secondary vegetation and lose of previous ( ... )
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Pproject aims at bringing back extensive cattle breeding and farming in long term solution subsidized from EU Funds for Natura 2000 areas (keeping extensive pasture land) in Borsuki, Gnojno and Trojany by Zabuz (projected reserve "Trojan").Mechanical clearance and moving will be developed until eco-agro programmes of EU become operational for this area..
Organisation information workshops
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2005
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16,592.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: POL/04/29 |
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Dormices (Gliridae) are not so well known from the scientific and people's point of view.3 of them are on the Red List of endangered species in Poland (fat doormouse - Glis glis,,forest doormouse - Dryomys nitedula,,garden domouse - Eliomys ( ... )
us), protected by Bern Convention, garden domouse also is on the Red List of IUCN and Habitat Directive of EU..Hiden night life-style is one of reasons of the lack of proper knowledge about these species.The lack of hollow trees - the lack of proper hatch place is one ot the main threat to these mammals. Project is aimed in active protection of door-mouse and garden domouse by increasing
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2005
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44,908.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/05/15 |
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Poland
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2005
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1,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/05/01p |
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Project preparation - initial dialoque with local administration (gminas - the lowest administrative unit in Poland) concerning implementation a long-term program of establishement of bicycle route (using existing local roads and paths) of exotic ( ... )
, along the Eastern and Northern Poland, mobilizing for preparation small infrastructure , places of interest, rest places, available accomodation, tourist information for bike tourists; active evaluation of potential route (Mr. Aleksander Buczynski and some volunteers' ride and inventory of places etc.).
Preparation of web page and
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Poland
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2005
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2,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/05/03p |
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description of project see: POL/05/01p; here continuation and production of materials. |
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2005
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6,797.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: POL/04/22 |
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European Roller is one of the most endangered bird species in Europe (in Red Data Book is classified as “CR – Critically Endangered” or – in some European countries – as “EX – extinct”). Also in Poland, number of European Roller ( ... )
is extremely low – 112 -133 – and is still decreasing. Around 30% of all population in Poland lives in Podkarpacie (35 pairs), where protection activities are poor.
Main goals of the project:
1. Stop decreasing of European Roller pairs number (elimination or limitation of dangers in Sandomierska Primeval Forest);
2. Monitoring of European Roller in Podkarpacie;
3. Increase the number of
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2005
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3,465.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/04/29' |
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see POL/04/29 |
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2005
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10,601.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: POL/04/26 |
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Dry summers and winters in past two decades and extensive agricultural drainage caused a dramatic fall of ground water, introduction of secondary vegetation in dried parts, floral and fauna poverty.
Project aims in an increase of water retention ( ... )
er to stop further degradation of important biotopes near Baranowo.
Main activities: rising water level in Prawdowskie swamp (now drying) securing better living conditions for reptiles, pond turtle and birds; clearance of bush and trees (secondary vegetation);adaptation of a small building in Zelwag village for local museum and information point for farmers about eco-agro EU programmes,
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Poland
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2005
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14,320.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/05/10 |
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Renewable energy governmental policy (law!) is not operational on the local level.There is a low understanding of renewable energy potentail due to the low knowledge, existing solutions based on non-renewable energy (coal,gas,oil) and very ( ... )
ive marketing of companies representing "old" energies. Obligatory by the law inventory of energy resources on the local level (for gminas) are exceptionally implemented due to the lack of understanding the renewable energy (the lack of examples, knowledge,know-how,data-base).
Project will bring the knowledge about existing locally renewable resources by inventory of it done by the Foundation
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2005
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12,423.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/05/04 |
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Knowledge of forest's owls biology,behaviour is not so deep because of night, hidden lifestyle;Tengmalm's owl (Aegolius funercus),eagle owl (Bubo bubo) and pygmy owl(Glaucidium passerinum);noticed decline of population due to more productive ( ... )
ch in forest management eliminating old trees with natural hollows; project address these threats by connducting inventory of hatch places in 5 national parks and associated landscape parks.It is a joint action of foresters, ornitologists and services of national and landscape parks with contribution of volunteers from schools and students;
Preparation of manual describing owls, their
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2005
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50,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/05/02 |
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Domnation of industrial orchads and industrial production of fruits based on foreign modified varieties caused a dramatic decline of original, local varieties of fruits in old home gardens, plots, affecting biodiversity in rural areas of Poland and ( ... )
ing also landscape;old trees are cut as non-productive, those along raods (cherry,apple ,peras avenues established in XIX centuries are unde threat);
main problem to be solved how to effectively reconstruct old orchads, how to convince people to participate in implementation of BD convention on a very local and understood level by farmers, owners of plots; reintroduction of old varieteie will
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2005
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37,155.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/05/07 |
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Illegal trade of endangered species of fauna and flora became a great problem, not well recognised, in Poland, in past years, especiaslly, when Polish eastern borders became Europe's borders.CITES Convention obliges their participants to effective ( ... )
s, what is not the case in Poland nowdays.Growing smuggling of these species to Poland as a transit country to the Western Europe as well as a growing market in Poland is facing not sufficient knwledge and enforcement of legal tools which are formally in place.
WWF in order to minimalize the scale and nature of illegal trade entering Poland (as targeted country) and Europe (as final
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Poland
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2005
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40,886.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: POL/04/24 |
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Support to very active local community, which is reconstructing old school building (constructed by the Ukrainian community for Polish children in 1930s unique place of cohabitation).Building , will serve as educational center, information ( ... )
tic point with services, place of local pro-ecological eductonal activities, establishment of a local orchad of native, local varieties of fruit trees and small arboretum collecting all local species ; introduction of modern use of renewable energy technology (boiler for biomass and solar panels). Boiler house will serve also adjacent building of kindergarden, replacing old small coal fired
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2005
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42,594.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/05/05 |
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Unique site of fossilized trees ( Taxadioxylon 13-14 million years old) can be found on the Polish-Ukrainian border near Siedliska.It is illegally excavated and sold despite the fact of legal prohibition since July 2004 when rerstriction were ( ... )
ally imopsed and became operational..Project is a part of greater efforts for creation of Polish-Ukrainian UNESCO MAB Biosfere reserve On Polish side are 3 valuable reserves landscape reserve Solokija (7,43ha), peatbog reserve Zrodla tanwi (186,73ha) and fiorest reseerve Jalinka (now3,8 ha to be enlarded about 52ha).Museum in Siedliska will become a local center for eco-tourism, activisation
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