Welcome to Euromontana’s mountain good practices database!
Here you will find a range of past and ongoing initiatives that are inspiring to drive change in the mountains! The database includes practices from all over Europe, covering a wide range of topics and using a variety of funding instruments. If you are leading sustainable development in your mountain community, you can also submit your own good practice! For any questions or requests, please contact communication@euromontana.org.
Market valuation and compensation of ecosystem services provided by Upper Austrian livestock farmers
With a view to better remunerating mountain farmers, the project has helped to quantify the ecosystem services provided by mountain livestock farmers in Upper Austria and the associated provision costs but also to identify interesting solutions for remunerating these services.
In response to the poor condition of Basque grasslands, the OREKA MENDIAN project aimed to develop a joint management strategy for mountain pastures in the 15 Natura 2000 sites in Euskadi and the 8 sites in Iparralde.
Targeted grazing and clearing, like controlled burning, are traditional practices in mountain agriculture. In the face of the increased risk of fire in the mountains due to climate change, these practices are techniques to be replicated in order to reduce this risk by maintaining open landscapes to preserve mountain habitats and species.
The initiative Law Carbon Dairy Farm aims to propose concrete actions to each farmer, consistent with the constraints of the farm, including altitude and the lack of mechanisable land in order to reduce the carbon footprint of milk production.
MapLoup is a predation data portal with an online visualisation interface. It provides livestock farmers and shepherds, technicians and policy-makers with clear, reliable and fast real-time access to data on wolf predation.
In Thessaly, Greece, cooperation Terra Thessalia developed a GPS tracking system in Thessaly to facilitate pastoral activities but also communication between farmers’ and other actors such as foresters and consumers.