Living Lakes Eastern European

The final conference of the “Living Lakes Eastern Europe Network" will take place on February 19 - 22 in Estonia. The conference is meant to create an international platform for an intensive exchange of knowledge and experiences. The first two days (February 19, 20) will be dedicated to field trips to Peipsi and Lake Võrtsjärv. At the conference in Tartu, participants will have the possibility to benefit by the wide knowledge of several experts giving a lecture on the issues sustainable tourism development, visitor management of protected areas, sustainable fisheries and land use planning. The Living Lakes Eastern Europe Network comprises seven organisations from five different countries: Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania and Germany. The Conference is hosted by the Global Nature Fund, the Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation (CTC), the Lake Võrtsjärv Foundation (LVF), the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Centre for Limnology and the South-Estonian Tourism Foundation and sponsored by the German Federal Foundation for the Environment (DBU), the European Union and the Estonian Environmental Investment Centre. For more information please visit the website www.globalnature.org/eastern-europe-conference  or directly contact Mrs. Stefanie Lampert (lampert@globalnature.org) or Mr. Udo Gattenlöhner(gattenloehner@globalnature.org).