• As the European Green Belt snakes from north to south it passes through a huge variety of European landscapes.
  • The European Green Belt initiative is a grassroots movement for nature conservation and sustainable development along the corridor of the former Iron Curtain.
  • 12.500 km 23 States. Large variety of European landscapes and landscape forms. National parks (Zapovedniks in Russia) along the Green Belt Europe.
  • For many endangered animal and plant species such as bears and Balkan lynx, the European Green Belt offers valuable habitats.
  • This proved to be the starting point for the German Green Belt project and helped to set in motion the movement for a pan-European Green Belt.
  • In Bulgaria, the rare lesser kestrel was successfully reintro-duced in the Sakar Mountains. Maps now display the protected areas for the entire European Green Belt.
  • The establishment of the European Green Belt Initiative in 2003 was a merging of different existing regional initiatives to one European initiative.
  • The European Green Belt is also an ecological initiative that joins 24 states, which were once divided by the impenetrable borderline.
  • The article focuses on the European Green Belt (EGB), which refers to efforts to create a network of conservation areas along the borderline that used to divide...
  • The European Green Belt initiative is a grassroots movement for nature conservation and sustainable development along the corridor of the former Iron Curtain.
  • The European Green Belt initiative is a grass-roots movement for nature conservation and sustainable development in the area of the former Iron Curtain.
  • Today the former "Iron Curtain" forms the "European Green Belt", an important corridor within the trans-European Network for Green Infrastructure (TEN-G).
  • The European Green Belt Initiative successfully transformed the most prominent symbol of division into an ongoing cross-border natural conservation project.