LIFE-Stymfalia: The nature of business

LIFE-Stymfalia Statement
Promoting Business & Biodiversity in Natura 2000 sites through joint actions and public-private sector partnerships
European project LIFE-Stymfalia
Proposal for an innovative re-financing protected area management scheme.
Photograph: © Dimitrios Dimopoulos/ Piraeus Bank
Rich biodiversity of Stymfalia – It is the southernmost wetland in Europe where the Purple Heron nests, one of the target-species of the project.
Photograph: © Andrea Bonetti / Piraeus Bank
Environment Museum of Stymfalia – Created by the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation aiming to demonstrate the interdependence of man and nature and their harmonious coexistence.
Photograph: © Thanasis Kottas / Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation

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11.09.2017

Third reed bed cutting

Species

Purple heron (Ardea purpurea)

One of the largest and most spectacular species of herons, it breeds in a few wetlands (mainly in no...