The Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme is building a future in which landscapes are enriched with biodiversity, establishing resilient, more self-sustaining ecosystems that benefit both nature and people
Annual Review 2022Photo: Viktar Malyshchyc
Over many centuries, Europe’s landscapes and seascapes have become degraded. Ecosystems are fragmented, species have been lost, and the populations of birds, insects and mammals are greatly diminished.
Europe needs to bring life back to its land and seas; we need to restore places where people can reconnect to nature and marvel at the natural world.
Restoring nature at scale is one of the best ways of tackling the twin climate and biodiversity crises, as well as enhancing the wide range of other benefits that nature provides – including clean air and water, fertile soil, flood protection and human health and wellbeing.
The Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme supports partners to restore landscapes and seascapes across Europe for the benefit of nature and people, building a healthier and more hopeful future.
Find out moreThe Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme activity and impact in numbers:
listed as globally threatened by the IUCN benefitting from project actions
have engaged in ELP projects
co-funding secured across the programme
of land and sea directly under restoration
people reached through ELP and project communications
benefitting from project actions
attended project events
of land and sea newly protected
trained to help enhance natures's recovery
Featured Project
The project aims to strengthen the dialogue between the various sectoral actors needed to ensure successful scaled-up restoration, such as the conservation community, restoration practitioners, local communities, the finance sector, and policymakers, to jointly identify solutions to overcome the main barriers to successful restoration across Europe. Under the project, two taskforces will be set up to address the specific topics of unlocking funding for restoration (led by UNEP-WCMC) and stakeholder engagement (led by BirdLife). Both taskforces will address the cross-cutting theme of enabling policy environment for restoration. Project outcomes will include creating solutions to strengthen stakeholder engagement and mitigate conflicts in restoration, solutions to unlock funding for restoration and manage associated risks, and strategies for achieving an enabling policy environment for restoration.
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A group of 15 European hamsters has been released on the Tarutino Steppe in the Danube Delta restoration landscape in Ukraine. This is the second release of a reintroduction programme overseen by the Rewilding Ukraine team, in collaboration with Kyiv Zoo and the Tarutino Steppe Nature and Ethnographic Park, with a family of three already released late…
25th September 2023
Over the next three years, supported by the Endangered Landscapes Programme, the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC),…
September 11, 2023
Are you passionate about marine restoration? We are looking for an inspirational and motivated individual to join the Endangered Landscapes…
August 29, 2023
A new trial taking place in the Solent, UK, hopes to prove that sediment dredged out of marinas can be…
August 24, 2023
