On the 19th of September 1979 was made an international contract in capital city of Switzerland named Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, so called Berne Convention. The Czech Republic acceded to the convention on the 8th of October 1997. Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats came into operation in the Czech Republic on 1 June 1998. The aims of this Convention are to conserve wild flora and fauna and their natural habitats, especially those species and habitats whose conservation requires the co-operation of several States, and to promote such co-operation.
Berne Convention became also the basis for Europe-mapping in programmes Natura 2000 and Smaragd and helped to a creation of National Red Lists of Threatened Species.
Each Contracting Party shall take appropriate and necessary legislative and administrative measures to ensure the special protection of the wild flora species specified in Appendix I.
Vascular Plants are represented by 506 taxons from Europe continent and 150 taxons from the location of Macaronesia (Azores, Madeira and Canaries). Berne Convention includes then 656 species and subspecies of Vascular Plants in all. So was these species as the rarest and most strictly protected within all Europe selected. Deliberate picking, collecting, cutting or uprooting of such plants shall be prohibited. Each Contracting Party shall, as appropriate, prohibit the possession or sale of these species.
By the year 2001 signed Berne Convention 44 countries, between those are not only European countries, but also some North African countries (Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal).
Our website is not taking pleasure in rigorous name listing. In this case we make an exception to the rule and in the list below you can see all taxons that are related to the Berne Convention.
Active links directs only in the herbarium of the web page http://BOTANY.cz, we will continuously supplement it.
