Conserving mires in the European Union

This report gives an overview of the projects co-financed for mire conservation under LIFE. It starts by describing the 13 habitat types covered under the Habitats Directive, looks at the principal threats identifies through the projects and provides a country-by-country summary of what has been funded so far. It then goes on to present the main actions used to combat these threats, using a wide selection of real-LIFE examples from the projects to illustrate this.