As a learning project, a monitoring plan is needed to guide the systematic collection and analysis of data to evaluate the Nature Returns project’s outcomes. We have just published the Monitoring Manual that will allow us to measure impact of Nature Returns’ approach and to assess how valid and useful this approach can be for the management of protected areas.
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Entrepreneurs are invited to join the Call to Increase Capacity in Shar Mountain National Park. The Park and Nature Returns are calling for leaders who want to make a difference and who are passionate about nature conservation; that have creative and fresh ideas that can contribute to the sustainability of Shar Mountain National Park.
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The Pico Island Nature Park and Nature Returns organized on March 27-28 meetings with the community of entrepreneurs of the island and the Pico Technical School to promote the call for entrepreneurs. The call is out until the end of April and we aim to get business proposals that may potentially reverse the threats that are listed in the pilot management plan of the Nature Park.
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The Government of the Azores and Nature Returns just published the pilot Management Plan for the Pico Island Nature Park, that allowed describing the priority natural values to be managed, analyzing and ranking the threats and pressures that can be reverted by businesses and defining the main activities to be held until 2030,
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