LIFE07 ENV/LV/000981

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Project title and/or acronym POLPROP-NATURA
PROJECT LOCATION Latvia (demo in the
Slitere National park)
BUDGET INFO
Total amount EUR 501.535
50 EC Co-funding EUR 244.900
DURATION Start 01/02/09 - End 31/01/12
PROJECTS IMPLEMENTORS
Coordinating Beneficiary LCTA Lauku Celotajs
Associated Beneficiary ECEAT - projects
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• BACKGROUND and AIMS
• Background
• protected nature sites suffer from intensive
  degradation and anthropogenous load
• the need to specify, monitor and solve the
  negative environmental impact from tourism
• lack of long-term approach to sustainable
  tourism development in protected nature areas
• need for balance between tourism an nature
  protection needs
• Aims
• To impact tourism development and nature
  protection policies at all stakeholder levels,
  directing towards implementation of
  sustainability principles in practice
• To implement, test and demonstrate a sustainable
  tourism management model of a Natura 2000 site
  (the Slitere National Park)
• To raise positive awareness of Natura 2000 in
  local stakeholders and general public in Europe
• MAIN EU POLICY(IES) TARGETED
• The EU Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) of 21 May
  1992
• The Council Directive 79/409/EC of 2 April 1979

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• MAIN ACTIVITIES
• Design 5 sustainable tourism products in the
  Slitere NP
• Develop methodology for monitoring the dynamics
  of tourism environmental, social and economical
  impacts in the Slitere NP establishing a model
  for sustainable tourism management
• Develop a guide to 14 national parks in the
  Baltic States of sustainable nature based tourism
  products
• Promote Natura 2000 products for European tour
  operators
• Develop the manual on best practices on
  integration of tourism and nature protection in
  Europe
• Organize a communication and dissemination
  campagne on nature and tourism in the Natura 2000
  sites (Latvia Baltics - Europe)
• To draft recommendations for national policy
  documents to balance sustainable tourism
  development and environmental protection needs
  enabling Natura 2000 as an opportunity and an
  advantage.
• EXPECTED RESULTS
• 1. Environment and sustainable tourism policy
  proposal document for LV
• 2. Sustainable tourism management model of a
  Natura 2000 site
• 3. Positive awareness of Natura 2000 among all
  target groups