OILRISK
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MIMIC
MARMONI
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Project objectives: to develop concepts for assessment of conservation status of marine biodiversity, including species and habitats and impacts of various human activities. The project shall develop innovative monitoring and assessment approach based on joint set of marine biodiversity indicators as well as to test in practice the monitoring and assessment techniques. The project is acting in the Baltic Sea in territorial waters and EEZ of Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Sweden. It is aiming at applying a regional approach for future marine biodiversity monitoring and cross country co-operation when assessing marine biodiversity in the Baltic Sea.
Project duration: 01.10.2010 – 31.03.2015
Project is funded by: European Union LIFE+ Nature & Biodiversity program as well as other donors and project partners
Project coordinating beneficiary: Baltic Environmental Forum – Latvia (project manager Heidrun Fammler).
Associated beneficiaries: Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology (Latvia); Institute for Environmental Solutions (Latvia); Latvian Fund for Nature (Latvia); Nature Conservation Agency (Latvia); Baltic Environmental Forum-Estonia (Estonia); Estonian Marine Institute (Estonia); Finnish Environment Institute (Finland); Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute (Finland); Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Sweden).
More detailed information about the project:
> In Latvia: Baltic Environmental Forum – Latvia, Anda Ruskule, anda.ruskule@bef.lv, tel. + 371 6735 7548
> In Estonia: Baltic Environmental Forum-Estonia, Laura Remmelgas, laura.remmelgas@bef.ee , tel. + 372 6597 027
> In Finland: Finnish Environment Institute, Vivi Fleming Lehtinen, Vivi.FlemingLehtinen@ymparisto.fi tel. + 358 40060 9269
> In Sweden: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Cecilia Lindblad, Cecilia.Lindblad@naturvardsverket.se , tel. + 46 10698 1295 and AquaBiota Water Research, Martin Isaeus, martin.isaeus@aquabiota.se, tel. +46 8161 001
