Horizon Biodiversity: Protected Area Resilience
Funds two €6.5M research projects building the tools to predict biodiversity loss and keep protected areas working as pressures intensify.
Horizon Biodiversity: Protected Area Resilience is a European Commission call that funds two €6.5M research projects building the tools to predict biodiversity loss and keep protected areas working as pressures intensify. The EU has committed to legally protecting at least 30% of its land and 30% of its sea by 2030, matched by the global Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework. But naming an area …
Research that tracks how the direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity loss — land- and sea-use change, exploitation of species, climate change, pollution, and invasive alien species — affect protected terrestrial, marine, and freshwater habitats and species over time, and builds predictive tools for how those pressures develop and compound over the medium and long term. Proposals define and test new management approaches for protected areas with measurable performance indicators, assess whether adaptive approaches such as assisted migration are needed, and address long-term ecological monitoring needs. Each proposal addresses one research field — A (terrestrial) or B (marine), both of which may include freshwater — and states it clearly on the application.
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