General objective: Implementing actions from the management plan to increase the protection and conservation of biodiversity and landscape in the Iron Gates Natural Park area and the Natura 2000 overlapping sites (ROSCI0206 Iron Gates, ROSPA 0026 Danube course-Baziaș-Iron Gates, ROSPA 0080 Almăjului-Locvei Mountains). Activities proposed by the project: contribute to increasing the level of knowledge of biodiversity and landscape in the Iron Gates Natural Park area, increasing the level of protection and conservation of species and habitats covered by European legislation, thereby maintaining and improving the conservation status of local ecosystems and their services; provide the necessary resources to strengthen adequate, efficient management ensuring the proactive conservation of biodiversity and landscape in the Iron Gates Natural Park area; they will contribute to the involvement of local communities and visitors in implementing the management measures set out in the Iron Gates Natural Park Management Plan. All the activities proposed for financing can be found in the Iron Gates Natural Park Management Plan approved by GD 1048/2013. The results expected to be achieved by implementing the activities proposed under this project will ensure the achievement of the general objective of the project, which is consistent with the thematic objective of Priority Axis 4 of LIOP 2014-2020 – “Preservation and protection of the environment and promotion of resource efficiency”, as well as with the Specific Objective (SO) 4.1, namely “Increasing the protection and conservation of biodiversity through appropriate management measures and restoring degraded ecosystems”. Specifically, the project will increase the protection and conservation of biodiversity for the species included in the standard forms of the Natura 2000 sites superimposed on the Iron Gates Natural Park, over a total of 128196 ha, the area representative of the Alpine and Continental Biogeographical Regions in Romania. The project will contribute directly to the appropriate management measures and restoration of degraded ecosystems to increase the protection and conservation of 9 habitats and 60 species and indirectly to the other species and haity listed in the standard forms of ROSCI0206 Iron Gates, ROSPA 0026 Danube course-Baziaș-Iron Gates, ROSPA 0080 Almăjului-Locvei Mountains. The specific objectives of the project are: Specific objective 1: Maintenance/Improvement of the conservation status of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora in Natura 2000 sites superimposed on the Iron Gates Natural Park Specific Objective 2: Improving the knowledge of biodiversity and landscape elements in the Iron Gates Natural Park Area Specific Objective 3: Raising awareness