The European Green Belt Initiative aims to create an ecological reserve that stretches from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea, crossing some of the most important habitats for biodiversity in Europe.
After a journey that has been largely on the former border between East and West ", one of the most controversial barriers of history" that symbolizes the global nature conservation and sustainable development border. The Way of the Iron Curtain, as moves begin to call, will focus on some of Europe's most beautiful landscapes and fragile, but also increase opportunities for socio-economic communities.
Green Belt
The green belt connecting the national parks, natural parks biosphere and beyond the boundaries of protected areas and unprotected areas along or across borders, operating more than 8,500 km from the border between Norway and Russia in the Barents Sea north of the border between Albania and Greece in the Adriatic Sea. The green belt is known for its high density of protected areas "over 3,200 is located in an area of 25 km on both sides of the border.
There will be a large group but rather a number of key areas and brokers transfer points, linking a number of important habitats' string 'Pearl' some few kilometers wide, some not even 30 meters. In most places along the green belt areas on both sides of the border are not homogeneous, but includes several habitats, meadows, fallow and wetlands, mature forests, natural areas and artificial landscapes. The connection is very important areas for migratory species such as wolves, bears, lynx and amphibians and birds.
The Iron Curtain
Throughout the former Iron Curtain was the military training areas, ammunition, landing strips, strips of tanks and waste tanks. These areas are often abandoned soldiers were withdrawn from regular economic activity for 50 years or more, while maintaining non-intensive agriculture, non-residential, no extraction or
mining, there is no hydrological change and no use of fertilizers. Natural processes such as erosion and sedimentation of the river and the accumulation of dead wood in forests could take place without hindrance. In consequence, species threatened with extinction if it does not thrive here, including wild orchids, black storks and otters fish.
On the other hand, the long-term use of military zones produced significant contamination of soil and groundwater. It is important to study the status of these lands, which do not represent a threat to nature or human or animal health in the future. Area for agriculture or livestock was often subject to different management methods, which are still visible in the landscape. The Green Belt Initiative aims to halt the privatization and speculation of doing irreversible damage to natural habitats and at the same time, leaving local populations without the possibility of developing self-determined.
European Cooperation
wonderful ideal, difficult to implement. Cooperation between the 12 countries bordering or more on the age limit may take some time and careful planning and diplomacy. The objectives of the 's extensive local to global, so that the path to the green belt is divided into three sections of the regional organization of: Scandinavia and the Baltic, Central and South-East Asia.
How long can you walk along the green curtain? In some years, although parts of it, including Germany, are well advanced. The project seeks simply to provide "a useful contribution to the commitments made by countries to halt biodiversity loss by 2010." And "certainly an area to watch.
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