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It's beautiful!: A story in the "Our Natural Europe" series
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Other instruments: Environmental policy instruments important for the establishment of protected areas in Europe.
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Natura 2000 data: This Natura 2000 database is an extract from the EUNIS database. It is a sub-sample of the European Natura 2000 database that holds information about sites designated by EU Member States under the Birds Directive (79/409/EEC) and the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC)
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Nationally designated areas (CDDA): The European inventory of nationally designated areas holds information about protected areas and the national legislative instruments, which directly or indirectly create protected areas.
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10 messages for 2010 — protected areas: Protected areas provide a wide range of services in a context of increasing pressures and a rapidly changing environment. Europe is the region with the greatest number of protected areas in the world but they are relatively small in size. Europe's Natura 2000, unique in the world and still young, and the Emerald network under development, are international European networks of protected areas that catalyse biodiversity conservation.
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Distribution maps: Located in Environmental topics › … › Europe's protected areas › Facts and figures
Our Natural Europe: conservation stories show importance of local action: When fishermen in the Koster Sea in Southern Sweden understood the value of the ecosystems beneath the waves, they voluntarily agreed to change fishing practices. The area became Sweden’s first marine national park in 2006.
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Conventions on European seas: Environmental policy instruments important for the establishment of protected areas in Europe.
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Conventions at the European level: Environmental policy instruments important for the establishment of protected areas in Europe.
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Progress in the proposal and designation of sites: Protected areas have taken many forms historically, from medieval hunting reserves, to more modern national parks and nature reserves. These different forms reflected the different needs that protected areas were created to serve, whether it was protecting the resource of wild game, preserving natural beauty or, more recently, safeguarding biodiversity. The last century has seen a great increase in both the number of protected areas and the total surface area that has received protected designation.
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