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Eurosite Slovenian member awarded during Green Week

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For its project WETMAN – Conservation and management of freshwater wetlands in Slovenia, our member Slovenian Institute for Nature Conservation received a Best LIFE Award during the Green Week in Brussels.

The overall goal of the WETMAN project was to re-establish a favourable conservation status for eight targeted freshwater habitats and six wetland habitat SCIs. The project sites – Pohorje, Zelenci, Vrhe, Planik, Gornji kal and Mura-Petišovci – contain different types of wetlands, all of which have suffered from a lack of appropriate management.

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Photo: Zelenci wetland, Slovenia