Dear friends and supporters of the Parks & Benefits project,

The project “Parks & Benefits” which has ended officially on 24 January 2012 introduced and strengthened sustainable nature tourism approaches in the Baltic Sea Region and communicates the mutual benefits to protected areas and to their surrounding regions for regional development and sustained natural development. In close and trustful cooperation the partnership has achieved the following results:

Dear partners and friends of the Parks & Benefits project,
I am looking back to our successful final event on 10 October 2011 in Sellin / Rügen (DE) and the following last meeting of all project partners from 11 – 14 October 2011 in Lauterbach /Rügen (DE).

October 2011  -  The Guide To Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas has been published. It is a work of the partner parks, partner universities, other related partner, EUROPARC and the projectmanagement.