Update 18:20  Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland has submitted a list of 37 sites around the country to the Council of Europe for consideration as sites worthy of special protection for their biodiversity. The Council’s Emerald network of protected sites was set up under the Convention of Bern in 1979, and requires states to protect biodiversity within their borders. Two sites in the lake Geneva region included on the list are Les Grangettes, in canton Vaud between Le Bouveret, canton Valais, and Villeneuve in Vaud, and the Rhone alluvial complex at Geneva, the Federal Office for the Environment has announced.

A habitat and animal and plant species may be plentiful in one country but still rare in Europe as a whole. Switzerland has tried to reflect the nature of the Alpine habitat by including eight sites at higher elevations.

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