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... 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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European Academy of Bolzano, Interim Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention
Published in October 2011
Kozak J., Björnsen Gurung A., Ostapowicz K.
Published 2011
The European Environment Agency
Copenhagen, Denmark; 2011
State Agency for Protected Areas of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine, Altenburg, and Wymenga Ecological Consultants, InterEcoCentre
Kyiv, Ukraine; 2010
English version
Ukrainian version
Carpathian Project - Palacky University and European Academy (EURAC)
Published 2009
Order a printed copy at UNEP Vienna ISCC
UNIDO, UNEP Vienna ISCC
Vienna, Austria; 2010
Order a printed copy at UNEP Vienna ISCC
Carpathian Project
Published 2009
VASICA is a transnational spatial development document for the Carpathian region. Following the success of the Alpine Space, it calls for the establishment of a support mechanism for the "Carpathian Space" in European Territorial Cooperation that will shift this transnational area from the periphery to a region of sustainable development in the heart of Europe. VASICA is one of the key results of the EU CADSES Carpathian Project.
UNEP Vienna- ISCC, ENSI, CASALEN
Published 2009
Carpathian Project-European Academy (EURAC)
Published 2008
UNEP/DEWA Europe
Published 2007
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Prechapter, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Annexes
Regional Environement Center (REC), European Academy (EURAC)
Published 2007
More information
Regional Environement Center (REC), European Academy (EURAC)
Published 2007
More information
European Academy (EURAC), UNEP Vienna-ISCC
Published 2006
UNEP
Published 2004