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Battle to halt biodiversity decline

By Jennifer Rankin  -  19.05.2011 / 04:31 CET
The Commission has a strategy to protect habitats, but conservation targets have been missed before.

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EU biodiversity targets

Fully implement birds and habitats directives

Maintain and improve ecosystems, including restoring 15% of degraded ecosystems

Increase contribution of agriculture and forestry to biodiversity protection, through reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and making forest-management plans mandatory for public woodlands and those over a certain size (to be defined)

Ensure sustainability of European fish stocks

Control invasive alien species

Step up EU's contribution to averting global biodiversity loss

Source : European Commission 2011

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