Humans and nature are highly interdependent: ecosystems sustain human life by providing fundamental services, such as food, water, medicines, a habitable environment, and others. People, on the other hand, are agents of both conservation and habitat destruction.

On 27 October 2023, the stakeholders' meeting between the URV team and ZASNET took place at the latter’s headquarters in Bragança (Portugal).

In November 2023, I, together with my colleagues, had the opportunity to meet and engage with some of the relevant stakeholders for the Baltic to Barents case.

At the end of October 2023, together with my colleagues from Eurac Research, I embarked on a first trip to the Julian Alps, at the border between Italy and Slovenia where the Prealpi Giulie Natural Park meets with Triglav National Park.

As one of the four TRANSNATURE case studies, the current transboundary cooperation in the Scheldt Estuary, the case study we examine at Ghent University, is based on a long-standing history of cooperation and conflict.