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News archive 2011
This section contains the news archive sorted by months. Please consult the following list if you are looking for announcements published during 2011.
December
- Five EU municipalities acknowledged for their commitment to biodiversity conservation
- Schoolchildren complete the mural of Mulkear
- New publication out! Best LIFE-Nature Projects 2010
- Proposals for the new 2014-2020 LIFE Programme regulation released!
- Preparing for the future of LIFE's role in EU nature conservation
- Planning for LIFE Environment's continued success
November
- Houting conference provides networking know-how for stream restoration
- Schoolchildren complete the mural of Mulkear
- Giant nets capture new life on UK moor
- EU focus on waste reduction
- Environment: Major expansion of Europe's protected natural areas
- Commission officials and NGOs get their hands dirty for nature
- Lessons from LIFE for the Blueprint to safeguard Europe's waters
- LIFE Nature links with the Fitness Check of EU Freshwater Policy
October
- Highlighting the innovation and replicability of Italian LIFE Environment projects
- Results of invertebrates platform meeting now available
- MoorLIFE project is bringing life back to the bogs
- EWWR plans pan-European 'clean-up day'
- Help LIFE celebrate its 20th anniversary!
- Workshop reveals progress of innovative project to reuse port sediment
- New nature conservation benefits flow from Prespa basin agreement in the Balkans
- Commissioner Potočnik to announce more Capitals of Biodiversity
- The return of the griffon vulture celebrated in Bulgaria
- Night LIFE: Programme contributions to the Year of the Bat
- LIFE support for stakeholder action aids endangered bats in Spain
September
- Greater expectations for LIFE+ 2011 European Week for Waste Reduction
- New publication out! Best LIFE Environment Projects 2010
- Beach campaign primes the public about posidonia residues
- LIFE and Europe's new Resource Efficiency Roadmap
- Replicating resource efficiency actions: LIFE's demonstration power
- Resource efficiency in practice: LIFE improves the effectiveness of Italian waste glass recycling processes
- Managing EU biodiversity resources: Conserving priority pond habitats in Minorca with LIFE
August
- Red kite reintroduced to Tuscany
- Dutch ambassador releases griffon vulture in Bulgaria
- New video celebrates Hungarian meadow viper births
- Lower Rhine area conservation boosts bird populations
- Great bustards benefit from 'safe fly zones' over Austrian grasslands
- Improving ecosystem service provision from agricultural practices
July
- New publication! LIFE preventing species extinction: Safeguarding endangered flora and fauna through ex-situ conservation
- Biofuel LIFE project wins Greek innovation prize
- Commission to provide €244 million for 183 new LIFE+ projects
- PRIME beach campaign on Posidonia management
- LIFE Environment conference points the way forward
- Web users witness first online birth of a Cory's Shearwater chick
- LIFE provides innovation support to help 'green' Europe's farm grasslands
- Catalysing long-term conservation support for Slovenia's corncrakes
June
- LIFE celebrates another year of success
- British weather can't dampen LIFE Platform Meeting
- LIFE Environment: achievements, future needs and opportunities
- Commissioner comments
- Awards celebrate the very best of LIFE
May
- View LIFE project videos
- Portuguese project demonstrates informatics tool for textile industry at workshop
- 2010 'Best of the Best' LIFE Project Awards
- New publication: LIFE and resource efficiency
- LIFE 'live' from European Parliament
- Visit to Biomares project spreads message
- PISCES film released
- Environment: major support for continued specific EU funding tool for the environment and climate action
- LIFE celebrates another year of success
- LIFE projects help to tackle illegal incidents of wildlife poisoning
- LIFE's ANTIDOTO project: a new strategy against the poisoning of large carnivores and raptors
- Eurasian black vultures benefit from LIFE-funded free phone helpline
- LIFE demonstrates effectiveness of non-toxic, marinefriendly anti-foul material
April
- EWWR 2010 awards ceremony held in Brussels
- Four more LIFE Focus publications in Polish
- LIFE platform meeting aims to strengthen invertebrate conservation
- LIFE water project wins "Neptun" award
- LIFE shines a light on more resource-efficient EU building practices
- Carpathian conservation actions help support at-risk raptors in Hungary and Slovakia
- Phase Change Materials boosts buildings' energy storage potential
- Conference showcases two decades of LIFE Environment success
March
- Help sought addressing environmental impacts
from car air conditioning systems - LIFE+ 2011 call: Frequently Asked Questions online
- LIFE project discovers new soft coral species in the Mediterranean
- Monk seal pup rescued
- Helicopters play a vital role in the conservation of
Moorland ressources - Illegal poisoning in Spain: three convicted
- LIFE Environment conference
- LIFE on the front line of nature conservation in military areas
- Military intervention supports Finnish nature conservation
- LIFE helps pioneering tree project take root in UK brownfield sites
- Cartoon campaign encourages green lifestyles among EU children
February 2011
- 'LIFE and European forests' in Polish
- European stakeholders meet in Brussels to discuss future of LIFE
- Green Footprint selected as project of the month
- LIFE lynx project breaks important new ground
- The new call 2011 is now open!
- LIFE projects promote sustainable forest management
- Forest management for water points the way forward
- Ireland's woodland project shows value of restoration
- Public consultation points ways forward