Text drawn up in collaboration with the European Centre for Nature Conservation, Tilburg, the Netherlands, submitted by the Council of Europe at the Ministerial

The pace of biodiversity decline is quickening worldwide. Habitat break-up, pollution, over-use of natural areas and the creation of artificial landscapes incre

The Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy, which was endorsed by ministers from 54 countries in the UN-ECE region on 25 October 1995, provide