THE EUROPEAN UNION’S BIODIVERSITY ACTION PLAN - Halting the loss of biodiversity

The EU Member • Accelerate progress towards the recovery of habitats and States were also amongst the first, in 00, to undertake to natural systems in the EU; halt the loss of biodiversity by the year 00. [...] Tipling/Wildlife/4nature.at The EU Biodiversity Action Plan The Biodiversity Action Plan calls on the Member States and the Community to: • Finalise the Natura 2000 Network by ensuring that every country (particularly the new Member States) proposes sufficient sites in their territory to safeguard the listed habitats and species across their natural range in the EU; • Designate, protect and effect. [...] strict nature reserves and focus instead on working closely with all Recognising the value of coordinated action for threatened species stakeholders and economic sectors to and the need to ensure the Natura 2000 Network is both coherent and ensure that the sites are managed in a resilient the Plan also calls on Member States and the Community to: sustainable manner over the long term. [...] The EU has already banned the use of damaging fishing gear in Posidonia beds in certain parts of the Mediterranean and along the reefs around the Azores, Madeira and the Canaries. [...] Harvey/4nature/Wildlife The EU Biodiversity Action Plan The EU Biodiversity Action Plan calls on the Community and Member States to strengthen the effectiveness of International Governance for biodiversity by: • Pressing for effective worldwide implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and other biodiversity related international agreements; • Enhancing the integration of biod.