3 Amendments of Marios MATSAKIS related to 2008/2210(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop wilderness areas; stresses the need to provide special funding for reducing fragmentation, careful management of re-wilding areas, development of compensation mechanisms and programmes, raising awareness, building understanding, tourism packages, measuring and improv and introducing wilderness-related concepts such as the role of free natural processes and structural elements resulting from such processes into the monitoring management effectivenesd measurement of favourable conservation status;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. In view of the well-documented damage which tourism has inflicted, and continues to inflict, on many of Europe’s most precious natural heritages, calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that tourism, even if focusing on introducing visitors to the habitats and wildlife of a wilderness area, is handled with extreme care, making full use of experience gained inside and outside Europe on how to minimise its impact, and with reference, where appropriate, to Article 6 Habitats Directive. Models where wilderness areas are for the most part closed to access (outside of permitted scientific research), but where a limited part is opened to sustainable high-quality tourism based on the wilderness experience and economically benefiting local communities, should be considered;