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The Fresh Water Pearl Mussel and its habitats in Sweden

- Activities

Activities
Here you can read in brief about activities connected to the project.
 

12 August 2009 Launching the handbook on Restauration of Freshwater pearl Mussel Streams


The LIFE-project has developed and published a handbook on restoration of Freshwater Pearl Mussel streams. Results and experiences from the project and other European projects are presented in the handbook. The handbook is published in English and in Swedish.

 

12-14 August 2009 Final Conference


WWF Sweden's LIFE-project together with The county administrative board of Västernorrland organised an international conference on aquatic conservation with focus on the Freshwater Pearl Mussel. Around 90 participants from 14 differnt countries took part in the conference. During the conference scientific data was presented and results and knowledge from the LIFE-project and other projects were presented.

The conference was an important platform for networking concerning aquatic conservation.

 

Knowledge exchange

The Project has been visiting several other LIFE-projects in Europe. All the visited projects have been working on aquatic conservation with focus on the Freshwater Pearl Mussel. Read the travel report .
 

12-13 May 2009

Project meeting in Ljungkile. Preparations for the final report, summary of all actions completed (all C-actions are completed). Focus on the excursion was the impact on streams from forestry. We visited Bratteforsån and Sollumsån and discussed the actions made to improve the riparian zones.
 

17-18 November 2008

Conferense on Protecting Europe’s Nature: Learning from LIFE. The conferense was organised by the EU-Commission in Brussels.
Presentations from different LIFE-projects. 250 participants. See programme

 

3-4 October 2007

Project meeting in Fågelfors, Småland. Technical projectreporting, discussions and field excursion.


10-11 May 2007

Platform meeting in Östergötland with all Swedish and Danish LIFE-nature projects. The purpose was to exchange knowledge between the different LIFE projects. Members from the EU commission took part in the meeting and presented the financial part of reporting.

 

8-9 May 2007

Projectmeeting and site visit. 6 people från Eu-commission joined a fieldtrip to stream Bratteforsån and Sollumsån.

 

29 September 2006

Technical and Financial Interim Report is sent to the EU commission. See short summary of technical report
 

25 September 2006

Natura 2000 meeting at SEPA together with County Administrative Boards, Ministry of environment, NGOs and others. Discussions and information about different possibilities of EU funding of Natura 2000 objects.
 

7-8 juni 2006

Project meeting (all project participants) in Örebro. Day one: project reporting information (both financial and technical) and information from every partner about the completed actions. Day two: field trip to one object with different actions carried out. 
 

21-22 February 2006

Workshop in Gothenburg Natural History Museum about fresh water mussels. 
 

30 November -1 December 2005

Conference in Jönköping, arranged by the County Administrative board Jönköping and "The Swedish society for limnology". The purpose was do discuss streams- impacts, actions and restoration.
The LIFE-project was presented by a poster and information material.
 

16-18 November 2005

Workshop on Freshwater Pearl Mussel in Sweden. The workshop was held in Karlstad, Sweden, and was arranged by Karlstad Univeristy and County Administrative Board Norrbotten. The purpose was to exchange experiences and collect the knowledge about the Pearl Mussel and it´s habitat. The LIFE-project was presented during the workshop.


15-16 November 2005

Workshop on Perl Mussel conservation and stream restoration in Germany, Bad Elster. The workshop was arranged by the LIFE Nature-project LIFE2002NAT/D/8458. The Swedish LIFE-project was represented and habitat restoration experiences were exchanged.
 

19 September 2005

Information signs have been produced and will be distributed and set up at  each project site in november. 
 

12-13 September 2005

Platform meeting with Swedish and Danish LIFE Nature projects. The meeting took place in Denmark, Mols Bjerge. The purpose was to exchange knowledge between the different LIFE projects. Members from the EU commission took part in the meeting and presented the financial part of reporting.  We also discussed ways of communicating a LIFE project
 

29 August 2005

The new monitoring team, ASTRALE, visited the project. The meeting took place in the south western part of Sweden (Västra Götaland). The team visited two of the project sites. There was also good media response from newspapers and TV during the visit. 
 

June 2005

Folder and Brouchure (action E4) has been produced and distributed to partners and other interested organizations.
 

26 January 2005

Start up meeting in Stockholm with WWF and parners. The purpose of the meeting was to introduce the project together with an introduction to the financial reporting. We also discussed communication and information material.  
 
  
 
Financing
The cost of the project is 10 million SEK. The EU´s LIFE Nature fund supports the project with 50% of all costs. The other 50% is jointly financed by The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, project partners and WWF.