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 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

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