Ever closer links have been forged between caring for nature on the one hand and human activities on the other. In recent years there has been a shift from an i

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

Coastal and marine ecological corridors, part of the Pan-european Ecological Network, form part of the migration route of many mobile marine species and are oft

"The problem of fragmentation and isolation of (semi-) natural habitats throughout Europe is generally recognised. Isolation, together with the shrinkage of the

Climate change is likely to have major environmental effects on natural habitats in the next fifty years. Conservation of biological diversity will have to be m