The European Commission on Tuesday added new sites to its biodiversity protection lists in new member states and updated existing lists in other regions.
The commission adopted an initial list of sites in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia in the so-called Pannonian bio-geographical region.
It also updated the existing lists in the Atlantic, Boreal and Continental bio-geographical regions.
The decisions by the commission considerably extended a 2000biodiversity protection network, adding 4,255 new sites of community importance that covers a total area of some 90,000 square kilometers -- about the size of Portugal.
The commission, the executive body of the European Union (EU),is due to update the protection lists for the Alpine and the Macaronesian biogeographical regions later this year and the list for the Mediterranean biogeographical region in January 2008.
Source: Xinhua
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