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The Outdoor category is supported by five magazines, this year.  TGO (The Great Outdoors) in the UK, NORR Magazin (Germany), and LIFT, Bike & Trekking, and Sport Partner (all part of the Maruba Sports and Fashion Publishers Group) in the Netherlands.   Here we present 6 projects that are all hoping for your vote.
 
Please read through the details below of the projects looking for your vote. Select the project that you would like to receive funding from EOCA this year. 

If you prefer you can vote in Dutch through the website of LIFT,  BIKE & TREKKING, SPORT PARTNER
Or you can vote in German through our GERMANY WEBSITE or that of NORR.
Alternatively you can vote through the website of our partner TGO.

Please note, you will only be able to vote once in this category, through one of these websites.

Voting in this category runs from 14 to 28 March 2013.
 

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Discover Târnava Mare, Romania

Website: http://www.fundatia-adept.org

The Târnava Mare landscape is one of the last great high-nature landscapes surviving in lowland Europe. Its many valuable habitats have evolved in association with traditional low-impact agriculture, and they harbour a vast diversity of flora and fauna including many threatened species. It is also an amazing historic cultural landscape: 800 years of management by Transylvanian Saxons is still visible in well-preserved villages and fortified churches. This landscape depends on the survival of the small-scale farming communities who created it and who manage it today. Despite 85,000 hectares being declared a Natura 2000 site in 2008, the region is under great pressure from poverty and abandonment due to lack of economic prospects, and migration of young people to the cities in search of work. The ADEPT Foundation carried out a pilot project in 2011, demonstrating how a mountain bike network can be a catalyse for multiple benefits to the local economy, and therefore to the surrounding landscape, by attracting visitors to the area. Under this proposed project, ADEPT will work with locals to build 15km of mountain bike trail, linking 3 villages and involving 70 green tourism providers, 5 schools and hundreds of small-scale farming families. The project will also develop and promote a tourism strategy for the area so that results are sustainable in the future.

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Ivindo National Park, Gabon

Website: http://www.trusttheforest.org, http://www.ivindo.org,

Tropical forests are rapidly disappearing all over the world, causing dramatic biodiversity loss. In Africa, no more than 8% of the original forest remains. Gabon is one of the few countries where most of the pristine forest remains. There is a high level of endemism in the forests and therefore deforestation implies a high risk of loss of species. The Ivindo National Park in Gabon is an area of dense rainforest crossed by the Ivindo river with its magnificent waterfalls. It is home to lowland gorillas, over 430 bird species, forest elephants and chimpanzees. In order to protect this forest from future threats, this project aims to train local people to gather information on its biodiversity to demonstrate its importance. It will also develop a sustainable ecotourism industry (providing camping and walking, trekking, biking and pirogue trails) which will give the forest a value to local people, generating employment and income associated with forest conservation

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Makay Conservation Project, Madagascar

Website: http://www.naturevolution.org

Until recently unexplored, the 4,000km2 Makay massif in Madagascar with high plateaus, inaccessible mountains and deep, hidden canyons has played host to three scientific expeditions which have discovered over 2,000 endemic animal and plant species, several endangered species and Magagascar’s only known cave paintings. Most of these unique natural habitats are imminently under threat due to uncontrolled forest clearing for example. An official protection status and urgent sustainable conservation measures are required. As well as reforestation, scientific and educational programs, this organization, which work for the conservation of the area, aims to implement a regulated adventure and naturalist ecotourism in the area in order to bring in local income and jobs, as well as ensuring any developments are carried out in the most sensitive manner. This project intends to develop eco lodges, campsites, guiding offices, wildlife observation platforms, as well as to inform the local guides. The project also aims to make sure all tourism operators and their clients abide by a code of conduct to ensure minimal impact. Finally, the organisation is working to obtain national protected status for the region and UNESCO World Heritage site recognition.

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Restoring Scotland’s Caledonian Forest

Website: http://www.rspb.org.uk/scotland

The Caledonian forest was once widespread in Scotland yet today only 1% remains. Abernethy RSPB reserve is the UK’s largest remnant of Caledonian forest stretching for 53 square miles in the spectacular Cairngorm National Park. It is home to 4500 species, 20% of which are nationally rare, including capercaillie, Scottish wildcat and red squirrels. This reserve has around 100,000 visitors a year who enjoy the walking, quiet recreation, spectacular landscapes and exciting and wildlife opportunities. This project will focus on re-connecting Abernethy to its neighbouring Caledonian forest, Glenmore, through the planting of 30,000 native trees to re-establish a huge wildlife corridor that can support more rare wildlife.

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Save Iglekärr's Old-Growth Forest, Sweden

Website: http://www.naturarvet.se

Iglekärr’s Old Growth Forest (about 70 ha) is located about 30 km north of Gothenburg, a remnant of a once much larger mixed woodland forest, the oldest parts being around 150 years old. 12 red-listed species and 40 different indicator species have been identified, suggesting a very high conservation value of the forest. It borders the Ekliden Nature reserve (80 ha), and if both forests were protected this would almost double the protected area and give species more room to live and breed. Naturarvet needs to raise SEK 5.5 million to buy the forest by 31st December 2013, ensuring it will thereby receive absolute protection and can never be sold, logged or in any other way commercially exploited. Each Euro saves one square metre of forest. Public access will be granted once the forest is saved and Naturarvet will work with local conservation groups to develop information signs and trails.

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