ETP Foundation

Sustainable Development Projects

GREEN BELT—Protection and Valorisation of the Longest Habitat System in Europe.

Projects

                                                

 

 

On November 29, 2006 ETP Foundation-Sustainable Development Projects was awarded a grant under the INTERREG IIIB (CADSES) National Program for the following project:

 

 

Partners:                    

A total of 17 partners from 8 countries — Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary,   Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia — participate in the project.

 

What is GREEN BELT?

  

 

Along the former “Iron Curtain” the longest habitat system in Europe has been preserved due to decades of inaccessibility. GREEN BELT mainly aims at the long-term protection of this unique natural heritage, thus contributing to the implementation of the NATURA 2000 and EU spatial policies such as ESDP.

 

By transforming the former “death belt" into a green “life line”, the project aims at fostering the communication between the people once separated and raise the awareness that nature protection can be compatible with sustainable regional development: “Borders separate, nature unites”.

 

Mid-term project meeting of the partner organizations in Kasperske Hory, the Czech Republic (10-13 October 2007)

 

Arda village—4 km away from the border with Greece

 

White horses

 

The Wonderful Bridges—the Rhodopes