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In 1989, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) and other environmentalists signed the Green Belt Resolution of Hof in order to push lawmakers to create an environmental protection area along the former inner German border. The European Green Belt follows the route of the former Iron Curtain and connects National Parks, Nature Parks, Biosphere Reserves and transboundary protected areas as well as non-protected valuable habitats along or across the (former) borders. It extends over 8500 kilometers from Finland to Greece, from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic. Read more.
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