Wishes for the new year!

On behalf of LIFE Andros Park project we wish you happy holidays and a new year full of hope and good health! We share with you the work of art created by Nana Filippou on the "canvas" found and collected by the team of the project's mycologists (Agricultural University of Athens, Lab. of General and Agricultural Microbiology) together with one of the caretakers of the Botanic Garden (Kaireios Library). The design is engraved on the underside porous surface of a Ganoderma adspersum mushroom, which was found on an alder trunk in Vori. This polypore, as well as G. applanatum, are also known as "the artist's fungus" since the underside porous surface of the mushroom could be permanently engraved! The artwork will be exhibited at the Agadakis Tower. The alder on…
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Participation in the Online Thematic Info Day: “LIFE and Forest Funding Program: Reality, Challenges and Needs in Forest Management in Greece the 21st Century”

The project participated and was presented in the Online Thematic Info Day entitled "LIFE Funding Program and Forests: Reality, Challenges and Needs in Forest Management in Greece the 21st Century ", co-organized on November 27, 2020 by the Green Fund, the Greek Task Force and the Greek Biotope/Wetland Centre and was attended by 331 participants. The event had two distinct parts. In the first part the national and EU priorities on forest policy, management, conservation and protection of our forest ecosystems were presented, as well as forest management research. At the same time, the issues of forest management and governance, to which the LIFE Program has contributed in Greece since 1992, were reviewed. In the second part recent projects of current and integrated LIFE forest projects, the implementation of which…
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