BirdLife International

BirdLife is an active member of the Strategy Council and is a member of the European Habitats Forum.

http://www.birdlife.net/

For detailed information contact: Ms N. Crockford.

Involvement in the Strategy process amongst others through NGO Position Paper on Biodiversity and paper on Steps Towards Sustainable Europe, both prepared for the third "Environment for Europe" Ministerial meeting. Contact: Ivan Gyulai (Biodiversity Issue Group), Kossuth u. 13, 3525 Miskolc, Hungary, Tel.: +36-46-349806, Fax: +36-46-352010, E-mail: biodivhu@mail.matav.hu, WWW: www.ljudmila.org/retina/eco-forum/biodiv.htm

The European Centre for Nature Conservation - ECNC - is an independent pan-European organization for the conservation of Europe's nature, biodiversity and landscapes. Its Headquarters are located in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between science and policy for the sake of biodiversity, people and economies in Europe. ECNC does so by practically influencing and assisting governmental policies and by integrating biodiversity considerations into other sectors of society. Its tactic combines vision with practical approaches and applicable expertise. Since its establishment in 1993 ECNC has developed a working partnership with an extensive network of organizations and institutes from all over Europe.

ECNC is recognized by the Strategy Secretariat and Council as one of the four leading international bodies in support of the implementation of the Pan-European Strategy, along with IUCN, Birdlife and ECOFORUM.

ECNC was chosen as consultants for the drafting of the Strategy and worked in close co-operation with the Council of Europe's Steering Committee for the Conservation and Management of the Environment and Natural Habitats. ECNC actively participates in meetings of the Council for the Strategy and leads various Strategy projects including: The Pan European Ecological Network (with the CoE); The European Biodiversity Resourcing Initiative (together with Switzerland, UK, the Netherlands, UNEP, CoE and Rabobank); The European Biodiversity Monitoring and Indicators Framework (with EEA). ECNC also developed, hosts and maintains the Strategy Guide, in co-operation with the Council of Europe, UNEP and IUCN.

In addition ECNC has funded significantly activities under the Strategy including through three international conferences, at Eindhoven (NL), at Krakow (PL), and at Tilburg (NL).

Contact for more information: Mr Rob Wolters, Executive Director.

The Biodiversity Issue Group (BIG) of the European environmental NGOs coalition for the Process 'Environment for Europe' worked after the Brussels (1996) conference under the supervision of regional co-ordinators: John O'Sullivan (West Europe), Ivan Gyulai (Central Europe), Eugene Simonov and Anton K. Chtchoukine (NIS). Ivan Gulyai had a formal position of the head of the Biodiversity Issue Group and represented it for intra-Coalition business. It was agreed during the Aarhus Conference of the Pan-European ECO Forum (June 1998) that the Biodiversity Issue Group will be co-ordinated further by one person and Oleg Tsaryuk (Uzbekistan) was appointed as a head. Julia Gorelova and Anton K. Chtchoukine (Russia) were delegated as an official representative of the Pan-European ECO Forum in the Council of the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy.

On the European Eco-Forum Strategy meeting, Kiev, September 2000, the Biodiversity Issue Group nominated Piotr N. Gorbunenko (Moldova) as the BIG Co-ordinator and reconfirmed Anton K. Chtchoukin (Russian Federation) as the EcoForum-BIG representative to the PEBLDS Council.

Eco-Forum website: www.eco-forum.org
Chair of the Co-ordination Board of the European ECO-Forum - Victoria Elias, ECO-Accord (Russia)
E-mail: velias@mail.ru

BIG website: http://www.biotica-moldova.org/big/

Contact persons: Piotr N. Gorbunenko, Anton K. Chtchoukine, Oleg Tsaruk, Alexei V. Andreev

Source: Piotr Gorbunenko, BIOTICA, 25 April 2001

Contact: Mr Albert Salman.

Conservation Programmes: Fauna & Flora International manages major conservation programmes in priority areas. They carry out assessments, identify important areas and contribute towards global planning for species conservation. In the course of this work certain themes emerge time and again - the sustainable use of resources, empowering local conservation efforts, assessing biodiversity and recommending action promoting ecotourism as a conservation tool - their approach is to identify where they can be most effective and really make a difference, and concentrate their efforts accordingly.

Of relevance to the Pan-European Strategy is their:

• Eastern Mediteranean Programme
  Important Plant Areas of Turkey project, which contributes to Strategy Action Theme 11 on threatened species.
• UK Dependent Territories and Caribbean Programme
  As a founder and active member of the UK Dependent Territories Forum, Fauna & Flora International promotes effective conservation strategies for many island Territories. We had substantial input in the Forum's Conservation Review document and have worked with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office on surveys of endemic animal species in Monserrat.
• Conservation Development Unit
  Actions include assisting the government to development National Biodiversity Strategies in Azerbaijan
• Global and European Plant Strategy

Contact: Fauna & Flora International, Great Eastern House, Tenison Road, Cambridge CB1 2DT, United Kingdom, Tel: +44 (0)1223 571000, Fax: +44 (0)1223 461481, E-mail: info@fauna-flora.org, WWW: http://www.fauna-flora.org/

IUCN - the World Conservation Union

IUCN is recognised by the Strategy Secretariat and Council as one of the four leading international bodies in support of the implementation of the Pan-European Strategy, along with ECNC. IUCN recognises the Strategy Guide links closely to its BCIS, Biodiversity Conservation Information System.

IUCN serves as technical advisor to the Convention on Biological Diversity. IUCN is an active member of the Strategy Council and Bureau as well as involved or leading various projects.

Key Regional Initiatives for Europe includes its "Parks for Life" Programme.

Actitivities are co-ordinated by the IUCN Regional Office for Europe, based in Brussels, Belgium, WWW: http://iucn.org/places/europe/rofe/

Contact: Mr Tamas Marghescu

The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) is a non-partisan, non-advocacy, not-for-profit organisation with a mission to assist in solving environmental problems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The Centre fulfils this mission by encouraging cooperation among nongovernmental organisations, governments, businesses and other environmental stakeholders, by supporting the free exchange of information and by promoting public participation in environmental decisionmaking.

The REC was established in 1990 by the United States, the European Commission and Hungary. Today, the REC is legally based on a Charter signed by the governments of twenty-five countries and the European Commission, and on an International Agreement with the Government of Hungary. The REC has its Headquarters in Szentendre, Hungary, and Local Offices in each of its 15 beneficiary CEE countries which are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, FYR Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Yugoslavia.

REC is an member of the Strategy Council and Bureau as well as involved in Action Themes 1 and 3. It leads on behalf of the Slovenian Government, the Sofia Initiative for Biodiversity and is a member of the BUWAL/ECNC working group on innovative funding for biodiversity.

Contact: Ms M. Mileva, Mr J. Zlinszky

UNEP-WCMC is involved in the Pan European Strategy, it was involved in the original Strategy drafting consortium and now is a body involved in implementing the Biodiversity Service for CEE/NIS. WCMC is an ECNC network partner.

Contact: Mr Jerry Harrison

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