Historic agreement for biodiversity in South-Eastern Europe 29
May 2008 | News story Committing to regional cooperation in
nature conservation and sustainable development, six governments
of South-Eastern Europe signed an agreement to dramatically
expand transboundary conservation efforts. In one of the most
significant announcements made at the 9th Conference of the
Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 9) in
Bonn, Germany, representatives of the governments of Albania,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, and
Slovenia announced their intent to declare 13 new protected
areas and enlarge 9 existing ones in South-Eastern Europe. The
six governments agreed to strengthen mutual cooperation in order
to achieve transboundary sustainable management in SEE. The
Dinaric Arc in South-Eastern Europe is a region that hosts large
and almost unspoilt forests and healthy populations of large
carnivores (bear, lynx, wolf, golden jackal), and is the most
water-rich area in the Mediterrane