Brussels, 10/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - New impetus has just been injected into the protection of wild birds in the enlarged EU, to try to put an end to the decline of endangered species by redoubling conservation efforts. On the 25th anniversary of the "Wild Birds" directive (directive 79/409/EEC), the Dutch Presidency and the European Commission held a conference (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, 7-9 November) to sit down with NGOs working in the field to look at the progress made thanks to...