The ‘Rights for Nature: Empower Citizens to Represent and Protect Ecosystems’ initiative invites the Commission to ‘recognise rights of nature in European law via a legal act such as a directive or a regulation to strengthen the protection of ecosystems’. In particular, the organisers ‘seek to move from treating nature as property to recognising ecosystems as living entities with intrinsic value and fundamental rights’, including ‘the rights to exist, to regenerate their biocapacities and vital cycles, and to be restored’.
The ‘Reconnecting nature through the creation of European biodiversity corridors’ initiative invites the Commission to present a proposal ‘to reconnect nature in Europe through a coordination framework for ecological connectivity between inland water and land ecosystems’ and ‘overcome ecosystem fragmentation and support biodiversity and resilience’. The organisers seek to promote common tools, ensure cross-border coordination and strengthen Natura 2000.
Source: European Commission
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