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Bern Convention

The Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats The Bern Convention is a binding international legal instrument in the field of nature conservation, which covers the whole of the natural heritage of the European continent and extends to some States of Africa. Its aims are to conserve wild flora and fauna and their natural habitats and to promote European co-operation in that field. 

Its aims are to conserve wild flora and fauna and their natural habitats and to promote European co-operation in that field. It was adopted and signed in Bern (Switzerland) in September 1979, and came into force on 1^st June 1982. It counts among its Contracting Parties 40 member States of the Council of Europe, as well as Burkina Faso, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia and the European Community. The protection of migratory species lends the Convention a distinct dimension of North-South interdependence and co-operation. The Czech Republic has been a  Party to the Convention since 1 June 1998 (More...)

The focal points in the Czech Republic are:

Mrs. Jana Vavrinova (Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, phone: +420 267 12 375) and Dr. Jan Plesnik (Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech republic, phone +420 241 082 114)

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	Bern Convention Text and Annexes
	Group of Experts on Biodiversity and Climate change
	Group of Experts on the Conservation of Invertebrates
	National Reports
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