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The the idea of protecting the best places for nature on land is a familiar and accepted way of doing conservation. The best of the best – our Natura 2000 site network – has been a success (there’s a long way to go to complete the network, but that’s another story). The requirement...

I regularly bang on about how important our protected areas are. In particular, our Special Protection Areas and Special Areas of Conservation (together forming the European Natura 2000 network) are vital to efforts to safeguarded not just wildlife but also a range of services the natural world provides...

This year, 2010, was to have been the year when the decline in the biological diversity of the EU had been halted. The target won’t be met. But – 2010 is also the year in which Governments across the European Union and around the world will come together in Nagoya in Japan in October at...