Framing our research to encompass both the science of biodiversity-led UGI and co-developing methods for incorporating a strategic approach to implementation of biodiversity-led UGI by planners and developers addresses a gap in current knowledge and begins to address barriers to UGI implementation.
This strategy can contribute to maintaining a diversity of land use/land cover in a heterogeneous landscape and the prevention of the occurrence of large wildfires, fundamental for the implementation of national biodiversity strategies and action plans.
Synthesis occurs both within and across disciplines and the implementation of an effective biodiversity informatics infrastructure would greatly enhance this type of activity.
A network of advisers supports the farmers with the planning and implementation of measures to promote biodiversity.
In its mid-term review of the implementation of the Community Action Plan on Biodiversity in 2008, the Commission noted that 50% of species and up to 80% of the habitats whose conservation is a matter of European interest are in a poor state of conservation.
Differences in ownership and different goals of the owners have a potentially decisive influence on the provision of forest ecosystem services and the implementation of instruments for the conservation of biodiversity.
Even worse, REDD makes no distinction between natural forests and industrial tree plantations -- meaning that its implementation often results in massive loss of biodiversity.
It therefore falls to me on behalf of the Commission to thank Mrs de Lange for having prepared this very timely report on the protection of biodiversity and the implementation of EU nature legislation.
Accordingly, management efforts following the ecosystem approach have strongly focused on the implementation of protected areas, heralded 'the cornerstones of biodiversity conservation' (e.g., Margules and Pressey 2000; Mulongoy and Chape 2004).
