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The Appropriate Assessment under the European Habitats Directive: Interplay Between Science, Law, and Policy
Abstract Despite 25 years of the European Union's Habitats Directive, the erosion of biodiversity in the EU has continued. To help explain the failure, this article analyzes Habitats Directive Article 6(3) and (4) and their key terms. It concludes, among other points, that the “Appropriate Assessment,” the objective of which is to insure the integrity of the Natura 2000 network sites, has not been used as it should have. Moreover, the vagueness of many terms in Article 6(3) and (4) have allowed biological conservation to be overcome by the imperative of economic growth. This article calls for greater recognition of the need for legal action despite incomplete scientific knowledge, as well as for better education of both the community and the courts in incorporating scientific knowledge into conservation policy.
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Drawing upon the findings from island biogeography studies, Norman Myers estimates that we are losing between 50-200 species per day, a rate 120,000 times greater than the background rate during prehistoric times. Worse still, the rate is accelerating rapidly. By the year 2000, we may have lost over one million species, counting back from three centuries ago when this trend began. By the middle of the next century, as many as one half of all species may face extinction. Moreover, our rapid destruction of critical ecosystems, such as tropical coral reefs, wetlands, estuaries, and rainforests may seriously impair species" regeneration, a process that has taken several million years after mass extinctions in the past.