Since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, there remains a strip of habitat running the entire length of Europe, which remains comparably undisturbed in many places. The latter is true for many larger adjacent areas of high conservational value, which are connected by this habitat strip. It is the aim of the „Green Belt“ project to have this entire strip with the key habitats within it become part of an ecological network. The Belt would act as a symbol of union between East and West and as a key element of Europe's global commitment to halting biodiversity loss by 2010.

European Green Belt "Fact Sheet" (pdf-file, 129 kb)

The Pan-European Green Belt exists in three main sections:

1) The Fennoscandian Belt - between Norway, Finland and the Russian Federation;

2) The Central European Belt - running through Germany, between the Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary and extended to the Adriatic Sea;

3) The Balkan Belt - running along the barrier that separated Balkan countries, ending at the Black Sea.

EuroNatur-Projects mainly concentrate on the southern part, the Balkans:

IUCN-Strategy for Southeastern Europe (pdf-file, 1130 kb), by Dr. Martin Schneider-Jacoby, EuroNatur-Projectmanager SEE

For further information see: www.greenbelteurope.org