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Section 7ReferencesEurope’s Environment(www.reports.eea.eu.<strong>in</strong>t)1995 The Dobris Assessment1998 The Second Assessment2003 The Third AssessmentPan-European Biological <strong>and</strong> L<strong>and</strong>scapeDiversity Strategy(PEBLDS) website(www.strategyguide.org)Pan-European Ecological Network (PEEN)Programme <strong>and</strong> Map, European Centrefor Nature Conservation (www.ecnc.nl)PEBLDS, 2004,Third <strong>in</strong>tergovernmentalconference ‘Biodiversity <strong>in</strong> Europe <strong>and</strong> 8thmeet<strong>in</strong>g of the Council of the Pan-European Biological <strong>and</strong> L<strong>and</strong>scapeDiversity Strategy, January 2004, Madrid,Spa<strong>in</strong>IPAs, the Pan-European Biological <strong>and</strong> L<strong>and</strong>scape DiversityStrategy (PEBLDS) <strong>and</strong> the Pan-European Ecological Network(PEEN)ContextPEBLDS was established as a means of implement<strong>in</strong>g the Convention of BiologicalDiversity at the Pan-European level.The strategy aims to provide a framework to uniteconservation programmes, <strong>and</strong> to encourage a cross-sector focus to natureconservation.The PEBLDS programme for 2003-2007 <strong>in</strong>cludes 4 ma<strong>in</strong> goals:Facilitation of European biodiversity issues (close collaboration with EU <strong>and</strong> CBD)Increased capacity to implement PEBLDS <strong>and</strong> CBDIntegration of national biodiversity action plans <strong>and</strong> of l<strong>and</strong>scape <strong>and</strong> biodiversity issues<strong>in</strong>to other sectorsAchievement of a wider underst<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g of biodiversity issues, lead<strong>in</strong>g to a broader<strong>in</strong>volvement of societyOne of the major achievements of PEBLDS has been the promotion of the Pan-European Ecological Network (PEEN), which seeks to identify not only priority sites, butalso ecological corridors to prevent isolation <strong>and</strong> fragmentation of Europeanecosystems. Projects on new <strong>areas</strong> of the PEEN network are cont<strong>in</strong>u<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> IPA datacan make a significant contribution to this process.The IPA programme forms action 1.4 of the PEBLDS work programme. IPA data onpriority sites will cont<strong>in</strong>ue to <strong>in</strong>form projects such as PEEN but also contributes to thewider aims of engag<strong>in</strong>g stakeholders, of encourag<strong>in</strong>g cross-sector nature conservation, ofbuild<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>formationon biodiversity, its value <strong>and</strong> t<strong>hr</strong>eats to a wider audience.TOMAS KUSÍKGrassl<strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong> Macedonia90

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