The new project, Volunteering for Healthy Landscapes, carried out by NGO Hnuti DUHA, will enable 14 volunteer weeks to be carried out over the course of two summers in the Czech Republic. These weeks will support nature and biodiversity, planting more than 200,000 trees and restoring numerous meadows, forests, peatlands and other precious habitats and ecosystems. This fits perfectly with EOCA’s new focus, which not only addresses the threat of climate change but also the urgent issue of the loss of biodiversity – ensuring the habitats being conserved are those that store carbon, reduce emissions, enable adaptations to climate change, and/or protect against further habitat and biodiversity loss.
EOCA member Cumulus, was looking to make a donation to a specific conservation project and was delighted to be able to provide a welcome first boost to the funds needed to support this vital project. Anna Wylezek, Communication Officer for Cumulus said, “We have relatively recently joined EOCA and wanted to help fund a project which looked after wild landscapes, particularly in Eastern Europe. This project ticks all those boxes for us, and we are thrilled to enable it to get off the ground!”
