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Bulgarian-Romanian Forest Mapping
BirdLife European Forest Task Force
Investing to wilderness: the best
response to the economic crisis
Andrzej Bobiec
Rzeszów University
Where is European wild nature?
Where are Europe’s wild forests?
Artist: J. Fałat, 19th century
Where are Europe’s wild forests?
Building Europe’s green infrastructure
Setting priorities:
Sustaining the retained or restoring lost?
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Building Europe’s green infrastructure
Setting priorities:
Sustaining the retained or restoring lost?
Photo: Pandion
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Preserving and restoring green
infrastructure: lessons from the history
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Preserving and restoring green
infrastructure: lessons from the history
Economic, social and
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Preserving and restoring green
infrastructure: lessons from the history
Preserving and restoring green
infrastructure: lessons from the history
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Preserving and restoring green
infrastructure: lessons from the history
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EU eastern frontiers:
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B2B – Balkans to Boreal: a continental
corridor of working landscapes
¾Including a strong component of wilderness, with large forest
reference ecosystems; being the largest South-North migration
track and Europe’s biodiversity refuge;
¾Providing space for harmonious development based on local
tradition and rustical culture, including protection of our
heritage of the popular wisdom, traditional crafts and skills;
¾Creating good perspectives and opportunities for organic
farming, services based on tourism and other eco-friendly
business; preventing mass-emigration to the West and cities;
¾Providing to Europeans the closest and largest contiguous
destination for natural and cultural tourism; a zone of
intellectual and spiritual restoration;
¾Fostering the processes of ethnic reconciliation, regional
cooperation, and further peacefull integration of Europe.
Forest ownership structure as an asset
Public ownership
Private
ownership
Timber, fiber
supply
Ecological
services
Biodiversity
Amenity, protection
aesthetic,
Spiritual, etc.
values
Time for coalition?
¾States at the EU eastern frontier play the key role in the
preservation of Europe’s biodiversity;
¾This role should be fully recognized by the European institutions and
addressed by specific dedicated financial mechanisms necessary to
protect that precious heritage against damanging effects of economic
and social changes; none of the existing financial schemes (whether
agricultural subsidies or forest environmental schemes) fits the
specific situation of the post-communist countries;
¾The distribution and concentration of Biologically Important Forests
should become one of the most important foundations for the new EU
conservation approach.
¾Necessary reduction of wood extraction in BIF areas should be
compensated by the entire Community regardless the ownership.
¾ EU should invest in the development of an adequate economic and
social infrastructure securing perpetuate functionality of communities
–stewards of our natural and cultural heritage.
Thank you!