European Regional Approaches to the Transboundary Conservation of Biodiversity: The Bern Convention and the EU Birds and Habitats Directives

摘要: In Europe, species and ecosystems struggle to cope with severe human pressures in heavily fragmented landscapes extending across a large number of comparatively small states. This makes the conservation European biodiversity challenging enterprise, need for transboundary cooperation particularly great. chapter introduces analyzes two principal international legal regimes aimed at biological diversity Europe level. The first these is Council Europe’s Convention on Conservation Wildlife Natural Habitats (Bern Convention) 1979. second regime composed by instruments Union (EU), Directive Wild Birds (Birds Directive) 1979 Fauna Flora (Habitats 1992. Particular emphasis given those features which set apart from other global regional nature regimes.