Happy and safe holidays from Minister of Environment Simonas Gentvilas.

Dear environmentalist, It means everyone.  Every day we make choices that have an impact on the environment - from what kind of Christmas gift we should choose to the decisions ...

The 8th session of the Meeting of the Parties to Espoo Convention will begin tomorrow, 8th December 2020, in Vilnius. It is an important international event focusing on the Environmental Impact Assessment in a transboundary context.

A grove of oak trees - a symbol of longevity and fortitude - was planted in Lithuania to mark the upcoming 8th Meeting of the ESPOO Convention Parties to be held in Vilnius on 8 – 11 th December 2020 and the 30th anniversary of the ESPOO Convention.

The European Commission has launched an open public consultation on the EU Action Plan „Towards a Zero Pollution Ambition for air, water and soil – building a Healthier Planet for Healthier People“.

Unsustainable farming and forestry, urban sprawl and pollution are the top pressures to blame for a drastic decline in Europe’s biodiversity, threatening the survival of thousands of animal species and habitats. 

European Mobility Week is the world ’ s largest sustainable mobility campaign, that takes place every year from the 16th to the 22nd of September.  This year, all 60 municipalities of Lithuania joined the campaign for the second year in a row. 

How to match green consumers and green products? – the challenge submitted by the Ministry of Environment in response to the GovTech Lab Lithuania call to participate in a series of public sector challenges.

This summer, the State Service for Protected Areas invites to visit all Lithuanian national and regional parks by collecting park stamps in the PROTECTED AREAS PASSPORT. During this summer travel contest you will receive a prize - a book about protected areas if you visit all 35 state parks.

The State Service for Protected Areas presents new publication - a richly illustrated information guide for protected areas in Lithuania „ POTECTED AREAS IN LITHUANIA “ . The book provides detailed information about our country's national and regional parks, reserves and strict nature reserves.

The State Service for Protected Areas consistently  implement the projects by programe “Protection and Adaptation of Landscape Values” (I, II), and will open even more objects in protected areas to visitors this summer.  

Do you know what kinda gifts the last glacier, covering Lithuania, left us about fourteen thousand years ago? It had drawn impressive stones from Scandinavia, which are still scattered all over our country today.