important plant areas in central and eastern europe - Plantlife
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Section 7<br />
References<br />
Europe’s Environment<br />
(www.reports.eea.eu.<strong>in</strong>t)<br />
1995 The Dobris Assessment<br />
1998 The Second Assessment<br />
2003 The Third Assessment<br />
Pan-European Biological <strong>and</strong> L<strong>and</strong>scape<br />
Diversity Strategy<br />
(PEBLDS) website<br />
(www.strategyguide.org)<br />
Pan-European Ecological Network (PEEN)<br />
Programme <strong>and</strong> Map, European Centre<br />
for Nature Conservation (www.ecnc.nl)<br />
PEBLDS, 2004,Third <strong>in</strong>tergovernmental<br />
conference ‘Biodiversity <strong>in</strong> Europe <strong>and</strong> 8th<br />
meet<strong>in</strong>g of the Council of the Pan-<br />
European Biological <strong>and</strong> L<strong>and</strong>scape<br />
Diversity Strategy, January 2004, Madrid,<br />
Spa<strong>in</strong><br />
IPAs, the Pan-European Biological <strong>and</strong> L<strong>and</strong>scape Diversity<br />
Strategy (PEBLDS) <strong>and</strong> the Pan-European Ecological Network<br />
(PEEN)<br />
Context<br />
PEBLDS was established as a means of implement<strong>in</strong>g the Convention of Biological<br />
Diversity at the Pan-European level.The strategy aims to provide a framework to unite<br />
conservation programmes, <strong>and</strong> to encourage a cross-sector focus to nature<br />
conservation.The PEBLDS programme for 2003-2007 <strong>in</strong>cludes 4 ma<strong>in</strong> goals:<br />
Facilitation of European biodiversity issues (close collaboration with EU <strong>and</strong> CBD)<br />
Increased capacity to implement PEBLDS <strong>and</strong> CBD<br />
Integration of national biodiversity action plans <strong>and</strong> of l<strong>and</strong>scape <strong>and</strong> biodiversity issues<br />
<strong>in</strong>to other sectors<br />
Achievement of a wider underst<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g of biodiversity issues, lead<strong>in</strong>g to a broader<br />
<strong>in</strong>volvement of society<br />
One of the major achievements of PEBLDS has been the promotion of the Pan-<br />
European Ecological Network (PEEN), which seeks to identify not only priority sites, but<br />
also ecological corridors to prevent isolation <strong>and</strong> fragmentation of European<br />
ecosystems. Projects on new <strong>areas</strong> of the PEEN network are cont<strong>in</strong>u<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> IPA data<br />
can make a significant contribution to this process.<br />
The IPA programme forms action 1.4 of the PEBLDS work programme. IPA data on<br />
priority sites will cont<strong>in</strong>ue to <strong>in</strong>form projects such as PEEN but also contributes to the<br />
wider aims of engag<strong>in</strong>g stakeholders, of encourag<strong>in</strong>g cross-sector nature conservation, of<br />
build<strong>in</strong>g capacity to engage <strong>in</strong> the conservation process, <strong>and</strong> of dissem<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>formation<br />
on biodiversity, its value <strong>and</strong> threats to a wider audience.<br />
TOMAS KUSÍK<br />
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