important plant areas in central and eastern europe - Plantlife

Section 7
References
EBMI-F information
(www.strategyguide.org/ebmf.html)
IEBI 2010 information, European
Environment Agency (www.eea.eu.int),
European Centre for Nature
Conservation (www.ecnc.org)
IRENA website
(www.webpubs.eea.eu.int/content/irena/
index.htm)
IPAs and monitoring
Context
Monitoring is part of the long-term work of conservation, involving the need to check
on the state of particular species, habitats and sites over time, to assess the effectiveness
of different programmes, and to react if there is a problem or a negative pressure on
those species or sites. Monitoring is carried out by many stakeholders, from specialists,
to local communities and land owners, to government organisations involved in funding
and reporting on conservation.
Coordinated monitoring in Europe
The different monitoring initiatives in Europe (primarily the CBD, the EU Biodiversity
Strategy and the PEBLDS) have been rationalised in the creation of the IEBI 2010
(Implementing European Biodiversity Indicators 2010), which will be coordinated by
EEA, ECNC and UNEP-WCMC.The IEBI 2010 includes input from a wide range of
stakeholders, including the European Biodiversity Monitoring and Indicator Framework
(EBMI-F), Indicator Reporting on the Integration of Environmental Concerns into
Agricultural Policy (IRENA), and the Agricultural Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative. The
importance of many different stakeholders is emphasised in this initiative and IPA data
could be used to assist this process.
IPAs and monitoring
As part of this project we have recorded any known information on the trends of
species and habitats at sites in the central database. Establishing national and regional
IPA monitoring systems is an essential part of the development of this project.The
challenge for all stakeholders is to find adequate sustainable funding to carry out
monitoring.
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