This year, the Ministry of the Environment offered Ukrainian children and their parents the opportunity to visit Estonia’s natural values during Nature Conservation Month, and LIFE-IP ForEst&FarmLand provided financial and organisational support.

On 28th of May, the LIFE programme - EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action - celebrated its 30th birthday. To celebrate this day, ten projects funded by the programme opened their doors in Estonia to show how we have contributed to nature and well-being.

As the ForEst&FarmLand project is planning to dig hundreds of small water bodies suitable for the common spadefoot and the northern crested newt, we are especially happy to cooperate with the Estonian Fund for Nature as part of their theme year dedicated to the common spadefoot!

On February 17, 2022, the Environmental Board together with the project team of ForEst&FarmLand selected the most outstanding managers of semi-natural grasslands in Estonia! Among thirteen nominees, Ülle Tamm from Manilaid, Tiit and Ulvi Uusoja from Hiiumaa and Viljar Ilves from Alam-Pedja were selected as laureates. All of them have contributed to community activities as well as to sectoral development, with a commitment to excellence, exemplary caretaking of the lands and green thinking and action.

On February 1, 2022 a pilot project was launched with the funding from the project ForEst&FarmLand and implemented by the Environmental Board and the Estonian Hunters' Association to reduce the impact of small carnivores on birds nesting in the coastal meadows of Läänemaa, Hiiumaa and Muhumaa.