EUROPARC

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Protected Areas hold a unique place in our land and seascape and can play a transformative role in addressing the biodiversity and climate change crises. The actions proposed in EUROPARC’s plan reflect the perspective of Protected Area managers and management authorities to work towards synergy and coherence across a broad range of EU policy areas not just to address the imminent crises but to proactively contribute to a better European, greener and more sustainable society. We will work to further improve the understanding of policy content, identifying practical ways to achieve policy goals and advocating for the role and contributions that Protected Areas can make. Our objectives span four identified thematic areas of work: 1. Strengthen and grow our network; 2. Nature and Biodiversity - strengthen the status of Protected Areas; 3. Enhance the status of nature on land and sea and people’s connection to it; 4. Promote Sustainable development, tools and approaches for people and nature Within each work area, our planned activities will deliver EUROPARC’s contributions to: Informing policy development and implementation; supporting capacity building and delivering effective communication. We expect that those activities will contribute, in the medium term, - to inform policy development process, at EU and wider level, with the integration of the perspective and ground expertise of Protected Area and Natura 2000 managing authorities and to to improve the management of PAs and N2000 sites across Europe. - to improve the knowledge and the expertise of PA and N2000 site managers towards a more effective management of PAs. - to raise the awareness and the understanding among PA Site managers on EU policy development, while contributing to mobilise the wide EUROPARC network for a better implementation of EU legislation.