Internationale samenwerking

EcoNatura werkt ook aan internationaal natuurbeheer. Hier komt vaak veel bij kijken zoals het onderhouden van goede interculturele relaties met counterparts en lokale gemeenschappen en het creëren van duurzame synergie. Econatura heeft in het buitenland en in ontwikkelingslanden ervaring met onder meer:

• Natuurbeschermingsonderzoek (inventarisatie).
• Ecological impact assessment.
• Institutional capacity building.
• Beheer van beschermde natuurgebieden.
• Ecosysteem-beheer.
• Ecologische netwerken en rewilding.
• Training of trainers.
• Tenders.
• Twinning-projecten.
• Oplossen van mens-dier-conflicten.
• Natuureducatie.

EcoNatura is thuis in verschillende ecosystemen van woestijn tot wetland tot regenwoud.

Projecten en samenwerkingsverbanden

• 1997: Successful project proposal for conservation of wetlands in the Azov-Black Sea in Ukraine (Wetlands International).
• 1999: Institutional capacity building for a Regional Biodiversity Centre for the Black Sea in Batumi in Georgia) (EU-TACIS, International Center for Water Studies/DHV).  → Conservation work on Kolkheti Wetlands
• 1999: Landscape and biological diversity surveys in Georgia in collaboration with the Georgian Centre for the Conservation of Wildlife.
• 2000: A workshop and field survey on ecological networking in Georgia, for the Georgian Centre for the Conservation of Wildlife.
• 2000: Conservation activities for the migratory bird flyway along the Georgian Black Sea coast. Production of a Georgian raptor guide with Dutch bird illustrators. (GCCW, BirdLife International, Batumi Raptor Count).
• 2000: A study tour for Georgian scientists to Dutch water management institutions. (EU-TACIS, International Center for Water Studies/DHV)
• 2001-2002: Development of an ecotourism project in Georgia.

• 2002-2005: BBI-MATRA funded project Safeguarding the Romanian Carpathian ecological network (Altenburg & Wymenga Ecological Consultants).
• 2006: Ecological impact and compensation study for Kolkheti Wetlands in Georgia concerning an oil transfer terminal (Ramsar Secretariat and Swiss Acta Consultants).
• 2012 – current: Consulting for ecological sustainable development of Vama Buzaului, a village in the Romanian Carpathians. (Building the Future foundation).
• 2011-2012: Conservation survey for large carnivores and human-carnivore conflict management study in Hormozgan Province, southern Iran. (Rewilding Foundation and Plan4thelandSociety).
• Tenders for institutional capacity building international nature management (Alterra).
• 2014 – Consulting for the Caucasus Cat Summit (IDEA).
• Current. Project development for the safeguarding lowland Amazon rainforest region and ecological community sustainability, in the region of Pando, northwest Bolivia. (Rewilding Foundation, Conservation International Bolivia, University of Pando/CIPA, ACEEA and Cumbria University, UK).
• Current. Lynx reintroduction in Britain (Rewilding Foundation and Lynx UK Trust).

Onderzoek naar biodiversiteit in het regenwoud van Pando, in het noordwesten van Bolivia. In samenwerking met ACEAA en de University of Cumbria.