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Mr President, some years ago a leading EU official visited a small village in eastern Hungary. The village was close to a wetland – a real bird paradise. As we got out of the car he asked me to stay silent for a while. He wanted just to listen to the concerto of the birds and the cicadas. In our region in the west, he told me sadly, we have lost these untouched nature sites forever; you should preserve yours at any price.
The goal of the Natura 2000 initiative can be defined by scientific criteria, but the basic motivation is simple: to save at least some parts of European natural sites for ourselves and for future generations. The biggest challenge for our future is the decrease in natural resources such as clean air, pure water and a healthy environment. A high grade of biodiversity is crucial for a healthy living environment, for food security and for quality of life in general.
In addition to these goals, Natura 2000 is also an effective tool to support European villages and the people living there. It is an important way of promoting organic farming and ecotourism. It provides jobs and revitalises rural areas. Natura 2000 can help redefine the role of rural areas in Europe.
I hope we came here to praise Natura 2000, not to bury it, as Shakespeare might have said. The future of our natural heritage needs and deserves at least the EUR 6.1 billion per year set aside for these brief projects. Natura 2000 can be funded in different ways, either by what is known as 'earmarking' a share of existing funds, or through an independent Natura 2000 fund. There are many technical details we have to resolve, but we should be united on one thing: the level of funding for Natura 2000 cannot be even one cent lower than was proposed earlier by the Commission.
I ask every political group and everybody in leading positions to rescue the original proposal and to improve it in order to ensure that, one way or another, the given amount will be spent entirely on Natura 2000 purposes."@en1
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