{"id":26,"date":"2018-11-12T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T10:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifefalkon.unimi.it\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2021-12-06T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T09:06:10","slug":"the-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.lifefalkon.eu\/en\/the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Objectives and project sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h4>OBJECTIVES<\/h4>\n<p>The <strong><em>LIFE FALKON<\/em><\/strong> project aims to foster the resilience of the central-eastern European population of lesser kestrel to climate change, by improving the conservation status of Italian and Greek populations breeding at the north-eastern edge of the breeding range.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specific objectives are to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improve foraging and nesting habitat quality in farmland areas and Natura 2000 sites (SPAs) where the species breeds in the project areas;<\/li>\n<li>Establish a collaborative international network to support the implementation of conservation actions, population monitoring programmes and knowledge sharing across the central-eastern Mediterranean region, and foster replicability and transferability of project actions in south-eastern Europe;<\/li>\n<li>Promote public awareness concerning the lesser kestrel and biodiversity conservation in the north-eastern margins of its breeding range, with an emphasis on environmental education;<\/li>\n<li>Obtain an accurate assessment of the conservation status of those populations that are considered crucial for the species\u2019 northward breeding expansion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The project directly implements the <strong>Birds Directive<\/strong>, by targeting a species that is listed as a conservation priority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>LIFE FALKON intervenes in the following Natura 2000 sites<\/h4>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>SPA<\/td>\n<td>IT4040014<\/td>\n<td>VALLI MIRANDOLESI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPA<\/td>\n<td>IT4060008<\/td>\n<td>VALLI DEL MEZZANO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPA<\/td>\n<td>IT4050023<\/td>\n<td>BIOTOPI E RIPRISTINI AMBIENTALI DI BUDRIO E MINERBIO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPA<\/td>\n<td>GR1130010<\/td>\n<td>LIMNES VISTONIS, ISMARIS &#8211; LIMNOTHALASSES PORTO LAGOS, ALYKI PTELEA, XIROLIMNI, KARATZA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SPA<\/td>\n<td>GR4110006<\/td>\n<td>LIMNOS: LIMNES CHORTAROLIMNI KAI ALYKI, KOLPOS MOUDROU, ELOS DIAPORI KAI CHERSONISOS FAKOS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SCI<\/td>\n<td>GR4110001<\/td>\n<td>LIMNOS: CHORTAROLIMNI &#8211; LIMNI ALYKI KAI THALASSIA PERIOCHI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SCI<\/td>\n<td>GR2130005<\/td>\n<td>LIMNI IOANNINON<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OBJECTIVES The LIFE FALKON project aims to foster the resilience of the central-eastern European population of lesser kestrel to climate change, by improving the conservation status of Italian and Greek populations breeding at the north-eastern edge of the breeding range. Specific objectives are to: Improve foraging and nesting habitat quality in farmland areas and Natura [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifefalkon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifefalkon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifefalkon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifefalkon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifefalkon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifefalkon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifefalkon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifefalkon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifefalkon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}