Preserving Tree Alleys for Biodiversity in Kurzeme and North Lithuania
Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-A Latvia-LithuaniaDescription
Organisations cooperating across borders(EN)
Thematic information
Priority: (VI-A_Lv-Lt_2) Priority 2 Green, resilient and sustainable development
Priority specific objective: RSO2.7. Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution
Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility
Type of intervention: 079 Nature and biodiversity protection, natural heritage and resources, green and blue infrastructure
Partners (7)
Lead Partner: Kurzemes Planošanas Reģions
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 90002183562
Address: Avotu , LV 3801 Saldus, Latvia
Department address: Valguma, LV-1048 Riga, Latvia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: http://www.kurzemesregions.lv
Total budget: EUR 175 372.50
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 140 298.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 35 074.50
- Tukuma novada pašvaldība
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Name: Tukuma novada pašvaldība
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 90000050975
Address: Talsu street, LV-3101 Tukums, Latvia
Department address: Talsu, LV-3101 Tukums, Latvia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Website: http://www.tukums.lv
Total budget: EUR 96 662.50
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 77 330.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 19 332.50
- Kuldīgas novada pašvaldība
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Name: Kuldīgas novada pašvaldība
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 90000035590
Address: Baznīcas, LV-3301 Kuldīga, Latvia
Department address: Baznīcas, LV-3301 Kuldiga, Latvia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Website: http://www.kuldigasnovads.lv
Total budget: EUR 93 943.12
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 75 154.49
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 18 788.63
- Aukštaitijos saugomų teritorijų direkcija
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Name: Aukštaitijos saugomų teritorijų direkcija
Department: Krekenava Regional Park Group
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 306108968
Address: J.Biliūno , 29110 Anykščiai, Lithuania
Department address: Dobrovolė village, 38301 Krekenava eldership, Panevėžys district, Lithuania
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: http://www.astd.lrv.lt
Total budget: EUR 72 270.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 57 816.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 14 454.00
- Kretingos rajono savivaldybės administracija
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Name: Kretingos rajono savivaldybės administracija
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 188715222
Address: Savanorių g. , 97111 Kretinga, Lithuania
Department address: Savanorių g. , 97111 Kretinga, Lithuania
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Website: http://www.kretinga.lt
Total budget: EUR 107 999.55
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 86 399.64
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 21 599.91
- Viešoji įstaiga “Inovatorių slėnis”
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Name: Viešoji įstaiga “Inovatorių slėnis”
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 304130193
Address: Mokyklos g., 32243 Antalieptė, Lithuania
Department address: Mokyklos g., 32243 Antalieptė, Lithuania
Legal status: private
Organisation type: Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Website: http://inovatoriuslenis.lt
Total budget: EUR 75 464.67
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 60 371.73
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 15 092.94
- Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas
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Name: Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas
Department: Faculty of Forest Sciences and Ecology in Agriculture academy
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 111950396
Address: K. Donelaičio str., LT-44248 Kaunas, Lithuania
Department address: Studentų str., LT-53361 Akademija, Kaunas dist., Lithuania
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.vdu.lt
Total budget: EUR 128 277.50
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 102 622.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 25 655.50
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Summary
Project acronym: Green Guardians
Project ID: LL-00251
Project start date: 2025-02-01
Project end date: 2027-01-31
Project status: ongoing
Relevant linked projects:
- LIFE OSMO BALTIC - Baltic wide web for Osmoderma eremita: the creation of an ecological network in the Baltic region.
- The aim of the ongoing project is to take measures to ensure the protection of the priority species of the EU Habitat Directive - Osmoderma eremita by creating a transboundary ecological network connecting Lithuanian and Latvian populations of this species, also reaching the border populations of North Poland and South Estonia, and envisaging research and the creation of the new Natura 2000 sites or the extension of existing ones in order to create a Natura 2000 network in accordance with the requirements of the Habitats Directive. The project is based on a stepwise approach that includes the identification of important areas for Osmoderma with large scale inventory and setting the necessary network for protection both inside and outside the Natura 2000 network, planning management activities both on a local scale (parks, avenues) and on a broader scale at Natura 2000 level (management plans for Natura 2000 sites), identifying the problematic aspects in the protection of the target species and finding solutions and providing tools to solve the identified problems (species conservation plan), and implementing habitat restoration throughout the entire ecological network.
- Project will carry out practical management activities - habitat restoration, management and cleaning (alleys, parks and big trees), develop guidelines for park and greenery management, develop park reconstruction projects and implement reconstruction projects, as well as develop a training program on the management of alleys, parks and plantations, and develop study course for arborists. (EN) | Projects have thematic synergies related to alleys since old and biologically valuable alleys are important habitat for Osmoderma species that is in focus of OSMO BALTIC project. We has been in contact with OSMO BALTIC project already in it's planning stage in order not to overlap project activities and results, and choose different pilot sites. As different from the OSMO BALTIC project, Green Guardians is not focusing only on protected alleys. Projects are planning to have cooperation and exchange of information during implementation thus complementing each others activities especially in raising public awareness on importance of alleys for biological diversity. (EN), “Optimizing the management of Natura 2000 network in Lithuania”. “Naturalit“ project aimed to ensure the full protection of the Natura 2000 network in Lithuania (2018-2027). (EN) | Projects have thematic synergies related to alleys since biologically valuable alleys are important habitats and may be included in Natura 2000 network. (EN), Ecosystem-based Adaptation and Changemaking to Shape, Protect and Maintain the Resilience of Tomorrow’s Forests (2022-2027) - in eco2adapt the Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) framework will be developed, derived from Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), that harnesses biodiversity and ecosystem services to reduce vulnerability and build social-ecological resilience to climate change. (EN) | Projects have thematic synergies related to alleys, and as forests, alleys also can be destroyed through climatic events such as storms or drought, or attacked by pests and pathogens, leaving a devastated landscape and despairing local populations. (EN), Lithuanian national project “Adaptation of the catalog of tree microhabitats to Lithuanian conditions, determination of conservation value and presentation of protection recommendations” (Completed 2020-2022). (EN) | Tree related microhabitats are recognised as important substrates and structures for biodiversity in forests, but the same refers to alleys, so data from this project is useful. (EN)
Total budget/expenditure: EUR 749 989.84
Total EU funding (amount): EUR 599 991.86
Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 80.00%
Co-financing sources:
- ERDF: Amount, EUR 599 991.86. Co-financing rate, 80.00%.
Investments, deliverables, policy contributions
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Deliverables:
- GIS database of alleys in Kurzeme region
- GIS database of alleys in North Lithuania region
- Introduction seminar in Kurzeme
- Introduction seminar in North Lithuania
- Roadmap for tree alley owners and managers
- Adopting of the GIS data base of alleys in Kuldiga County municipality
- Adopting of the GIS data base of alleys in Kretinga District municipality
- Heat stress monitoring system in Kuldīga Old Town (PP4)
- Kuldiga pilot POP-up alley in Old Town pedestrian street (PP4)
- Restoration and maintenance of tree alleys in Antalieptė Monastery and Kamariškės Manor park (PP3)
- Restoration and maintenance of two alleys in the city of Kuldīga (PP4)
- Restoration and maintenance of 5 alleys in Tukums County municipality (PP5)
- Maintenance of alleys in Salantai and Kretinga manor parks (PP6)
- Maintenance of Daniliškis linden-tree alley (PP7)
- Management Plan for Salantai manor park alley
- Management Plan for Kretinga manor park alley
- Management Plan for Daniliškis linden-tree alley
- Educational workshops on tree alleys maintenance and restoration
- Study visit to Poland about alleys maintenance and protection
- Purchase of equipment for trainings and maintenance of alleys
- Public campaign with participatory GIS survey about alleys
- Development of education materials for children about trees and alleys
- Educational workshops in 8 eco-schools in Kurzeme about trees and alleys
- Educational tours for children about trees for biodiversity
- Public lecture series about trees and alleys and their value for biodiversity and climate
- Educational workshops in schools in Kretinga
- Project final event
- Project profile on latlit.eu
- Information about the project on partners websites
- Information on social media
- Informative posters at premises of all partners
- Press releases
- Marking investments of PP3
- Information boards in maintained alleys
Contribution to wider strategies and policies:
- EUStrategyBalticSeaRegion The project is related to solving environmental and climate change challenges in the Baltic Sea region, which is a horizontal issue in all 14 political directions.
- However, the project will contribute the most in at least two sub-goals - ‘Rich and healthy wildlife’, 'Climate change adaptation, risk prevention and management'.
- Activities are aimed at ensuring rich and healthy wildlife, halting the decline of biological diversity, maintaining a balanced ecosystem and restoring it where possible
- Other The EU’s biodiversity strategy for 2030 is a comprehensive, ambitious and long-term plan to protect nature and reverse the degradation of ecosystems. The new approach to biodiversity conservation focuses not only on unique and threatened components of nature, but also on natural elements that are characteristic of biogeographic regions and smaller areas.
- According to the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, the member states have been set three nature protection goals to be met by 2030:
- 1. Legally protect at least 30% of the EU's land and 30% of the EU's marine territories in the "true Trans-European Nature Network" and integrate ecological corridors into it.
- 2. Strictly protect at least one third of the protected areas of the EU, including all the remaining primeval and ancient forests of the EU.
- 3. To realistically manage all protected areas with clearly defined conservation goals and measures and ensure proper monitoring in them.
- As part of this plan, the Commission proposed the EU’s first ever Nature Restoration Law which includes an overarching restoration objective for the long-term recovery of nature in the EU’s land and sea areas, with binding restoration targets for specific habitats and species.
- In addition, the nature restoration plan determines the following specific tasks to be completed, for example, to restore the areas of carbon-rich ecosystems, to plant three billion new trees in the EU, to develop greening plans for cities with at least 20,000 inhabitants.
- Our project will provide an opportunity to expand the network of protected areas, improve the status of protected species and habitats, strategically plan and manage green infrastructure network to deliver a range of ecosystem services, while also enhancing biodiversity.
- Other The European Landscape Convention (Florence, 2000) -focuses on the quality of landscape protection, management and planning and covers the whole area, not just outstanding landscapes.
- The Convention covers all landscapes, both outstanding and ordinary, that determine the quality of people’s living environment. Therefore roadside tree alleys are a valuable landscape component. Roadside tree alleys have been established on palace grounds, in royal gardens and parks, and they are important and legible elements of landscape architecture.
- Landscape protection involves actions to design and harmonize the significant or characteristic features of a landscape. The aim of landscape management is to ensure the regular upkeep of a landscape based on the principles of sustainable development. Landscape planning involves measures to enhance, create or restore degraded or mismanaged landscapes.
Programme Common Output Indicator:
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RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
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RCO 087 - Organisations cooperating across borders, Measurement unit:
Programme Common Result Indicator:
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RCR 084 - Organisations cooperating across borders after project completion, Measurement unit:
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RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSBSR
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Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project
Financing programme
2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-A Latvia-Lithuania
Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme
2025-05-21
No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)
55 / 55 (100%)
No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)
194 / 194 (100%)
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