European Green Belt
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The European Green Belt initiative is a grassroots movement for nature conservation and sustainable development along the corridor of the former Iron Curtain. The term refers to both an environmental initiative as well as the area it concerns. The initiative is carried out under the patronage of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Mikhail Gorbachev. It is the aim of the initiative to create the backbone of an ecological network that runs from the Barents to the Black and Adriatic Seas.
The European Green Belt as an area follows the route of the former Iron Curtain and connects National Parks, Nature Parks, Biosphere Reserves and transboundary protected areas as well as non-protected valuable habitats along or across the (former) borders.
See also
- German Green Belt
- Iron Curtain Trail, a project to complete a long-distance cycling route in the EGB corridor.
- Korean DMZ Nature Reserve; the DMZ between the two Koreas has created an involuntary park, and since 1966 there have been proposals to turn it into a proper nature reserve
