Location: Oberpfalzer Jura, Bavaria, Germany, www.nepo-muk.de

Objective: integrated conservation and development of the Jura region, with ecological connectivity at its core

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Solutions:  cooperation with farmers and shepherd to maintain high value agro-environmental fields

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Critical factors of success: integrated approach, involving not only conservation but local sustainable development, branding of regional products (such as the Jura Lamb), and tourism.

Key learning points: not regulations and laws but encouragement and voluntary participation are the keys to success

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