... one-third of all European vascular plant species can be found in the Carpathians? That means almost 4,000 plant species, and 481 of them are found only in the Carpathians!
… Gerlachovsky Peak (2,655 m altitude) in the High Tatras in Slovak Republic is the highest peak of the Carpathians?
… the European Union’s largest populations of brown bears, wolves, lynx, European bisons and imperial eagles (globally threatened species) are found in the Carpathians?
… 36 national parks, 51 nature parks and protected landscape areas, 19 biosphere reserves and 200 other protected areas are member of the Carpathian Network of Protected areas
… there are 36 registered UNESCO World Heritage sites and 49 important pilgrimage destinations in the Carpathian area?
… the number of hotels in the Carpathians has increased by nearly 60% in the last ten years?
… the Carpathians contain the continent's largest remaining natural mountain beech and beech/coniferous forest ecosystems and the largest area of pristine forest in Europe (outside Russia)?
... the Carpathians are the largest, most twisted and fragmented mountain chain in Europe? They are Europe’s largest mountains by area.
… in the 1970’s, about 1,000,000 people worked in the mining sector in the Carpathians? Today, the number of employees in this sector is about 340,000.
… the Carpathians were put on the WWF ‘Global 200’ list of major ecoregions in need of biodiversity and habitat conservation?
… more than half of the Carpathians are covered by forests? The Carpathian forests are a vital link between the forests of the north and those of the west and south-west of Europe.
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COP3 Opening Speech – UNEP Executive Director Mr. Achim Steiner; Presented by UNEP ROE Regional Director, Mr. Christophe Bouvier |
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UNEP/CC/COP3/INF5 | Status of Signatures and Ratification of the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians and the Protocol on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological and Landscape Diversity |
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UNEP/CC/COP3/INF6 | Final Programme |
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UNEP/CC/COP3/DOC10 | Terms of Reference (ToRs) of the Working Groups (WG) to the Carpathian Convention | |
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UNEP/CC/COP3/DOC6 | Draft Protocol on Sustainable Tourism to the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians |
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Updated Hosting Offers for the Permanent Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention
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Meeting Report of the Third Meeting of the WG on Sustainable Tourism; Rytro, Poland, 09 - 10 September 2011 |
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ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT, MONITORING AND EARLY WARNING |
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Draft Terms of Reference for the WG on Climate Change Adaptation |