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Section 1 DANA TURONOVA Human communities and wild plant habitats have co-existed for thousands of years but pressures from people are increasing. Currently 25% of central and eastern Europe’s IPAs are threatened by development. Introduction Why do we need IPAs in Europe Wild plants, fungi and their habitats are fundamental to our lives, the lives of all other organisms, and the air, soil and water around us. Europe has already lost an astonishing number of species and habitats, from the very rare to the seemingly common. We continue to lose many plant species in Europe every year, although we still understand very little about the long-term implications of this loss for humans and other organisms. The causes of this decline in diversity are also well documented and include habitat destruction and fragmentation, intensive agriculture, poor forestry management, transport and infrastructure development, air and water pollution, and invasive species. The identification and protection of IPAs is an important process in stemming the decline of wild plant diversity and the ecological systems that support it, by ensuring that the threats to our best sites are recognised and that these invaluable areas are not lost through indifference or ignorance. Despite the continuing loss of plant diversity, Europe still has some of the most beautiful and diverse areas of forests, grasslands, mountains, wetlands, rivers and lakes of anywhere in the world. The central and eastern European region in particular has a wealth of large, un-fragmented natural areas; such as increasingly rare areas of natural and semi-natural grasslands, and the largest areas of old growth or ‘virgin’ forests with their wide range of plants, trees, fungi, mosses and lichens. Mountain ranges such as the Carpathians and Rhodopes contain hundreds of endemic plant species, the Baltic region, Belarus and Russia have unique expanses of bog, wetland and tundra, and the major European rivers such as the Danube, are home to an impressive number of plants and 10
Introduction MONICA SARBU DANKA PETROVIC animals.This region is also in a period of rapid social and economic transition and never has the need for effective and targeted plant conservation strategies been more urgent. The aim of the Important Plant Areas programme is identify and protect the best plant areas around the world, using robust criteria, sound data and specialist knowledge, and to ensure these sites are targeted for conservation action, policy and funding. Paeonies in an oak wood in Romania (left) and Ramondia serbica a species protected by the Bern Convention. IPAs and other conservation projects IPA is not a legal site designation. It is a framework for identifying sites, which can be used to support conservation actions and initiatives, and to assess the effectiveness of existing protected area networks for plant conservation. The IPA project forms an integral part of a much wider conservation framework, from the global Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) framework to regional pan- European and European Union initiatives. IPAs are not intended to compete with other programmes but instead to support and underpin them with sound and easily comparable plant data. The plant and fungi kingdoms are so large and complex that important plant and habitat data are often under-used by decision makers because they are not easily available. The main framework for the IPA project is Target 5 of the CBD Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC).This ground-breaking strategy has the first clear measurable targets of the CBD and signatory governments have committed to achieving them by 2010. The European Strategy for Plant Conservation (EPCS) was the first regional strategy for the implementation of the GSPC, and IPAs form targets 1.4, 1.5 and 2.14 of this document. Target 5 of the GSPC requires the identification and protection of 50% of the most 11
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