Announced during the EU GREEN WEEK the winners of LIFE AWARDS
During the EU GREEN WEEK, the most important annual event for environmental policies, Karmenu Vella EU Commissioner for the Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, congratulated with the winners of LIFE Awards 2018. Among the best awarded projects on nature, environment and climate changes also an Italian project “LIFE WOLFALPS”, coordinated conservation actions in the Alpine regions of France, Italy and Slovenia, to minimise conflict with people and improve the prospects for the species. As a result, the number of wolf packs doubled, the species increased its range and the Apennine and Dinaric wolf populations were joined up for the first time in over 200 years.