IENE Intro

Infra Eco network Europe (IENE), established in 1996, is a European network of authorities and experts involved in the phenomena of habitat fragmentation caused by the construction and use of linear transport infrastructure, especially motorways, railways and canals (waterways).

The organisation stimulates the mutual coöperation and tries to promotes the exchange of knowledge between the sectors of environment and transport infrastructure. Both on a national as on a international level.

The general aim of the IENE is to promote an efficient, sustainable and safe pan- European transport Network supplying measures to maintain the biodiversity and reduce the amount of traffic accidenst and collisions with fauna.

IENE addresses decision makers, planners and researchers as well to the public. At this moment experts from 21 European countries are actively involved in the activities of IENE. Since 1996 when IENE was established there have been eight international IENE meetings, in different parts of Europe. The network is coordinated by a coordination center, a steering committee and 21 national coordinators who coordinate the build-up and maintenance of the network in their own country.

IENE promotes international and multidisciplinary research in the field of transportation infrastructure and nature.

In this context, the IENE was the applicant of the Cost 341 - project ('Habitat Fragmentation due to Transportation Infrastructure). A new action in the framework of the COST (Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical research) program of the European Community. It is a European network for the coordination of a national subsidized research striving for a exchange of information on international scale. the action started in 1998 and runs over 4,5 years.

The initiator of the proposal was the Road and Hydraulic Engineering Division of the Dutch Ministry of Transportation, Public Works and Water Management, in 1996 after a conference on " . Habitat fragmentation, infrastructure and the role of ecological engineering" organised by the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management in the Netherlands in September 1995.

• The IENE History
• The IENE Goal
• The IENE Reports
• The IENE Products