Tag: “ecosystem-services”

1. Green-Care project scientific study confirms: mindfulness exercises in nature benefit depressive patients

   A year ago, EUROPARC organised the webinar “Ways to Wellbeing in Nature – Activating Parks and Protected Areas as natural health centres”. We focused on…

   https://www.europarc.org/news/2023/12/green-care-project-scientific-study-confirms-mindfulness-exercises-in-nature-benefit-depressive-patients/

2. Forests for Individual and Public Health – Research body and praxis from Italy

   Forest therapy represents the most important “nature-based programme” for health improvement. Since 2019 extensive research has been conducted in Italy to establish scientific criteria and…

   https://www.europarc.org/news/2023/12/forests-for-individual-and-public-health-research-body-and-praxis-from-italy/

3. Restoring peatlands: the most efficient terrestrial carbon-sink in the world

   The Moors for the Future Partnership is working to restore degraded peatlands since 2003 in the Peak District National Park and South Pennines. Natural England gave…

   https://www.europarc.org/news/2019/07/restoring-peatlands/

4. Nature is the answer: IUCN’s manual on ecosystem services

   Guidance for good nature questions IUCN (the International Union for Conservation of Nature) has recently published the manual “Tools for measuring, modeling, and valuing ecosystem…

   https://www.europarc.org/news/2018/08/nature-is-the-answer-iucns-manual-on-ecosystem-services/