ForestConnect: Towards a Climate-smart Forest Connectivity for Large Carnivores in the Balkan-Carpathian-Dinaric Region (January 2024 – June 2026)
ForestConnect aims to secure climate-resilient forest corridors that enable large carnivores to move across borders in the Balkan-Carpathian-Dinaric region. The project develops dynamic conservation planning tools for transnational species monitoring, supports the piloting of climate adaptation measures, helps reduce human-wildlife conflict, and builds the capacity of nature management professionals to apply forest management practices that facilitate large carnivore range shifts. It builds on the results of the SAVEGREEN and CONNECTGREEN projects and adds value by integrating climate change considerations and transferring experience from the Carpathians to the Balkans and the Dinarides.
Within the framework of ForestConnect, the CCIBIS platform was updated in the beginning of 2026, more than five years after its initial release. The system was upgraded to address vulnerabilities and strengthen its technical foundation. As part of this upgrade, the GeoNode platform was updated from version 3.2 to version 4.4, improving stability and future usability.
For more information visit the project’s internet page: ForestConnect | ForestConnect
ForestConnect aims to secure climate-resilient forest corridors that enable large carnivores to move across borders in the Balkan-Carpathian-Dinaric region. The project develops dynamic conservation planning tools for transnational species monitoring, supports the piloting of climate adaptation measures, helps reduce human-wildlife conflict, and builds the capacity of nature management professionals to apply forest management practices that facilitate large carnivore range shifts. It builds on the results of the SAVEGREEN and CONNECTGREEN projects and adds value by integrating climate change considerations and transferring experience from the Carpathians to the Balkans and the Dinarides.
Within the framework of ForestConnect, the CCIBIS platform was updated in the beginning of 2026, more than five years after its initial release. The system was upgraded to address vulnerabilities and strengthen its technical foundation. As part of this upgrade, the GeoNode platform was updated from version 3.2 to version 4.4, improving stability and future usability.
For more information visit the project’s internet page: ForestConnect | ForestConnect
ForestConnecr Project is funded by the Interreg Danube Region Program, co-funded by the European Union.
SaveGREEN Project is funded by European Union Funds (ERDF).
ConnectGREEN – Restoring and managing ecological corridors in mountains as the green infrastructure in the Danube basin. The main objective of ConnectGREEN project for the next 3 years (2018 – 2021) is to maintain, respectively improve the ecological connectivity between natural habitats, especially between Natura 2000 sites and other protected areas of transnational relevance in the Carpathian ecoregion, namely in Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine.
One of the project’s outputs is the Innovative Decision Support Tool. For more information click here and here.
Project was co-funded by the European Union Funds (European Rural Development Funds & Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance).
TRANSGREEN aims to contribute to safer and environmentally-friendly road and rail networks in mountainous regions of the Danube Basin with a special focus on the Carpathian Mountains. It will do so by improving planning frameworks and developing concrete environmentally-friendly and safe road and rail transport solutions taking into account elements of Green Infrastructure, in particular ecological corridors.
TRANSGREEN “Integrated Transport and Green Infrastructure Planning in the Danube Carpathian Region for the Benefit of People and Nature” project (DTP1-187-3.1, January 2017 – June 2019) was funded by the Danube Transnational Programme through European Regional Development Funds.
Centralparks aims at improving management capacities of Carpathian protected areas. The project will support nature protection and local sustainable development, improve integrated environmental management capacities and policies, enhance transnational cooperation, and mitigate current threats and pressures to biodiversity. Policy support documents and tools, tailored for decision-makers and protected area managers, focus on enhancing biodiversity and landscape conservation, local sustainable tourism development, integrated nature conservation planning, habitat evaluation, ecosystem services, and communication with local communities.
The project has been elaborated thanks to the project Building management capacities of Carpathian protected areas for the integration and harmonisation of biodiversity protection and local socio-economic development (Centralparks), supported by Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme.
BioREGIO Carpathians wants to show how the integrated management of the Carpathians’ natural assets can boost both, sustainable development and ecological connectivity in the Carpathian region. Together with regional stakeholders, we will identify development opportunities in protected areas in the Carpathians and will find ways of cooperation for bringing these opportunities to live.
To see the BioREGIO Carpathians Project results, see the Web GIS portal.
BioREGIO Carpathians is a transnational cooperation project, co-financed under the 2nd call of the EU SEE Transnational Cooperation Programme, priority area “Protection and Improvement of the Environment”.