History

The European Conservation Action Network is an exciting project set up in 2007 by The Kingcombe Trust in association with the Dorset Branch of Butterfly Conservation and several partners in Europe. It is funded by the Leonardo da Vinci section of the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme with a potential lifespan until 2013.

Our first partners in 2007 were the LPO in La Brenne, central France, and Aggtelek National Park in Hungary. Since then we have increased our scope and have taken groups to nine partners in five countries: France, Poland, Belgium, Hungary, and The Czech Republic. Altogether nearly 300 people have taken part in our programme.

In 2011 we established EuCAN as a non-profit Community Interest Company (CIC), through which we are applying for further funding for our activities in the UK and in the rest of Europe, and established two exciting new partnerships in Spain and Romania.

Click here to find out more about our partners.

2012 sees EuCAN begin a number of community-based projects in the UK, primarily working with mental health service users on important sites for butterflies in Dorset and Somerset. We have also branched out into working on commercial habitat management contracts with our successful contract for Butterfly Conservation in Neroche forest. We are using this commercial work to support our conservation projects and to give our