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project info
Start date: 30 June 2016
End date: 28 September 2022
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 1 407 408,96 €
EU contribution: 1 196 297,62 € (85%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: Nemzeti Fejlesztési Minisztérium, Környezetvédelmi és Energiahatékonysági Programokért Felelős Helyettes Államtitkárság

Nature conservation reconstruction of the Oaks and soft villages in the Hortobágy National Park Directorate

The aim of the project is to reconstruct and recreate natural or semi-natural habitats consisting of native species that fit into the landscape, which promotes the long-term survival of natural values, the rehabilitation of degraded areas and the creation of favourable living conditions and habitats. The aim of the works is to create natural, low human intervention systems that fit the landscape and take into account the environmental needs of Natura 2000, protected plant and animal species, in order to create favourable conditions for their populations. This objective is closely aligned with the National Development Plan II. The Environmental Protection Programme and the National Nature Conservation Plan as part of it. At the same time, the planned nature conservation development is also in line with the European Union’s Natura 2000, Pan-European and Hungarian National Ecological Network programmes. Planned interventions: — Extermination works: destruction of invasive woody adventiv species (such as acacia, ash, green maple, ect.) in natural associations with high natural value. The destruction works are carried out by mechanical means (drying, felling, ringing). Afforestation: in those locations where invasive species form a coherent compact patch, after removal of undesirable species, the natural structure of habitats and the composition of tree species are restored by planting forests (using native, landscape-like tree species). In carrying out the afforestation, we use full and sweeping soil preparation methods, we use seedlings of native species during planting. — Permanent stress, conversion of cultivation: in the case of certain forest sections, we consider it necessary to change the cultivation branch in order to protect the habitats of protected and highly protected plant and animal species located on the site or linked to open habitats. Furthermore, in our view, it justifies the change of cultivation, that the forests generated by the obligation to renovate are not justified from the point of view of nature conservation or landscape conservation, the maintenance or regeneration of forest resources that are alien to the landscape is contrary to the conservation and Natura 2000 objectives, and in many cases there were no forests in those areas during the period of traditional landscape management or in the preceding periods. — Fencing: in locations where it is not possible due to over-preserved game in the absence of appropriate precautions, wildlife fences widely used in forestry practice around afforestation and wooded pastures are installed. Creation of wooded pasture: in areas where the landscape features more open woody habitats, wooded pastures are created. The first step in creating wooded pastures is to ensure the complete removal of invasive woods. In areas freed from invasive pressure, the already present native tree species will provide the grove character.

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