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April 2014

LIFE demonstratesthe value ofenvironmentalvolunteeringThe European Commission

recognises the role that

volunteers play in improving

social cohesion and generating

citizenship. In 2011, it

produced a Communication on

'EU Policies and Volunteering:

Recognising and Promoting

Cross-border Voluntary

Activities in the EU'...

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ANNOUNCEMENTS10 April Launch of next LIFE callfor projects provisionally set forJune

16 April Manchester-based projectreleases films on recycling

22 April LIFE Best Projects 2013:Nature, Environment andInformation winners revealed

24 April WECF sets out itsrecommendations for EU policy onEDCs

26 April Rohrschollen Islandproject restores Rhine connection

24 April Bulgarian LIFE projectcelebrates return of lesser kestrelsfrom Africa

30 April LIFE+: EuropeanCommission provides €282.6million for 225 new environmentand climate projects

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PROJECT SUMMARIES

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KH-AX-14-004-EN-NISSN: 1725-1877

Volunteers help monitoraquatic warblers in PolandVolunteers have made an important

contribution to the LIFE+ project

'Biomass use for Aquatic Warblers'

(LIFE09 NAT/PL/000260), being run by

the Polish Society for the Protection of

Birds (OTOP) in the Podlasie and Lublin

regions of eastern Poland.

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Featured VideoOROKLINI (LIFE10 NAT/CY/000716)-

The Oroklini Lake is one of only three

natural wetland areas in Cyprus and is

an important bird migratory route and

stopover place in spring and winter.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

10/05 Public workshop on monitoring endangeredinsects

Badia Prataglia,Italy

13-15/05 Futurescapes project to host LIFE PlatformMeeting on climate change adaptation

United Kingdom

14/05 LIFE DOMOTIC project's final conference Valladolid, Spain

14- 16/05 Nature protection in Hungarian militaryareas

Veszprém,Hungary

27-29/05 Seminar on nitrogen fertilisation invulnerable intensive irrigation areas

Pamplona, Spain

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