LACOPE - Landscape Development, Biodiversity and co-operative Livestock Systems in Europe
The LACOPE project objectives are:
- The identification of Co-operative Livestock Systems (CLS) that create important FFH habitats and areas, large enough to ensure
survival of viable populations of endangered species.
- The optimisation of CLS as ecologically and economic sustainable tools to maintain and create open/semi-open ecotones and
landscape dynamics according biodiversity goals.
- Goal oriented use of the potential of CLS to match strategies in nature conservation (NATURA 2000) and agri-environmental
policies in extending EU.
Within the project we were responsible for the ‘target species approach’ (target
species for nature conservation and management, used as spatial indicators
for the assessment of biodiversity) and carried out zoological investigations
in Germany (SW-Bavaria), Switzerland (Biosphere Reserve Entlebuch)
and Ireland (Connemara).
The LACOPE project runned in the specific programme on Energy, Environment
and Sustainable Development (EESD-ESD-3) within the scope of the fifth
RTD framework programme.
It lasted from November 2002 to October 2006.
Project co-ordinator was Prof. Dr Giselher Kaule (Institute of Landscape
Planning and Ecology, University of Stuttgart). The project management
was done by Dipl.-Ing. Agr. Brigitte Holz (E-Mail: lacope@t-online.de).
Project web site: www.lacope.net
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