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Interpreting ‘favourable conservation status’ for large carnivores in Europe: how many are needed and how many are wanted?

2017-01-01

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The EU Habitats Directive is a key biodiversity conservation instrument. It contains legal obligations for the 28 EU member states in order to safeguard a ‘favourable conservation status’ (FCS) for selected species and habitat types. The crucial FCS concept itself, however, remains subject to considerable confusion regarding its proper interpretation and operationalization, impairing the Directive’s effective impl...

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DOI: 10.1007/s10531-016-1238-z

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