Between 2003-2006, a multinational project team lead by European Centre for Nature Conservation and comprising EUCC, and partners from Slovenia, Croatia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzogovina, Serbia & Montenegro, Poland ad Greece is drawing up an indicative map of the Pan European Ecological Network in the South-East European countries. The task of the EUCC will be to participate as an Advisor and help in the production of relevant coastal and marine information for inclusion in the map. It is a follow-up to the successful project which produced an equivalent map for north east Europe (see recently completed projects).

This project aims to outline the contours of the Pan European Ecological Network in South Eastern Europe (SEE). It will identify the core nature areas of European importance in SEE, existing corridors between these areas, where new corridors could and should be established to meet the connectivity requirements of key species and the location of buffer zones and stepping stones, when and if required. The main output will be an indicative map which can be used as a tool for national and supra-national policy-making in SEE, related to land-use planning and nature conservation.