Green Belt Europe

Borders separate — Nature unites

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Downloads Interreg-Project finished 2008

• Gap Analysis of the Central European Green Belt
• Gap Analysis Fact Sheets
• Sensitive Transport Development along the Central European Green Belt
• Corporate Design Manual
• Flyer Green Belt EN
• Mobile Exhibition Banner 1 EN
• Mobile Exhibition Banner 2 EN
• Mobile Exhibition Texts EN
• Partners

Why do we protect the Green Belt?

The Iron Curtain throughout Europe prevented people from both sides from crossing the border line. It inhibited economic development not only in the area of the military constructions, but in large areas adjoining the border. Many people left the border regions or were resettled.

These very grave and inexplicable impacts on man gave nature a chance:

• was almost undissected by roads
• there was no intensification of land use
• the construction of settlements and business parks were reduced to a minimum in a zone of several kilometers along the border

So habitats were preserved, that have become rare throughout Europe, e.g. coastal habitats, natural floodplains, extensive grassland and farmland, heath, fens, large natural forests and oligotrophic lakes.

• One of the most important results of the isolation was the preservation of a gigantic almost undissected wildlife corridor throughout Europe.
  This might become even more important for species migrating because of the global warming.

The preservation of the Green Belt helps not only nature, it preserves our natural and cultural heritage and it gives us the possibility of coping with the European past.

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Green Belt Europe