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The EUROMAB network
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EUROMAB
covers the countries of Europe and North America. It organises
meetings of MAB and the biosphere reserve managers every
two years. These meetings deal both with their everyday
practical experiences and fundamental subjects:
- How should biodiversity be monitored?
- How can local participation be encouraged?
- What kind of tourism should be encouraged?
- How can rural decline be countered?
- How can local action be best integrated into a global
"regional development" approach?
These are typical of the questions discussed at an international
level through the network. The meetings are followed up
by discussion groups in the web. Joint programs have been
set up such as BRIM which is developing a database on
biosphere reserves.
The highly original, transfrontier biosphere reserves
are increasingly popular. Their territories are situated
on both sides of a border that in the past was often in
dispute. The cross-cultural management of a shared territory,
often under very different political and administrative
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1996 SPOT satellite image of the Reserve, ©
CNES - SYCOPARC - NATURPARK PFÄLZERWALD, 1996,
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In Europe, the East Carpathian Biosphere Reserve straddles
the border between Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine, the Danube
Delta Biosphere Reserve is in both Romania and Ukraine,
the Vosges du Nord/Pfälzerwald in France and Germany,
the Tatras Biosphere Reserve in Poland and Slovakia, and
the Krkonosose Biosphere Reserve in Poland and the Czech
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