Post on 30-Sep-2020
Life for the Krkonoše Mountains’ meadows?
LIFE Corcontica!
Basic Information
Coordinating Beneficiary: Krkonoše Mountains National Park Administration Associated Beneficiaries: DAPHNE ČR – Institute of Applied Ecology Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic
Total Budget: € 3, 588, 573 75% co-financed from the LIFE+ Nature 25% co-financed by the project beneficiaries
Period of Realization: 2012 - 2018
The highest mountains of the Czech Republic (up to 200-300 m above the timber-line)
Due to specific geographical position, the area hosts plants both from Northern and Southern
Europe
The Aim of the Project • To maintain or improve a quality of traditionally used mountain
meadows
• to restore 29 enclaves of meadows (species composition as well as structure)
• The area of interest: 425 ha (habitat type 6230*: 215 ha; 6520: 179 ha; 6510: 31 ha)
• Development of farm plans (for above mentioned habitats) introducing suitable management methods for stable or increasing representation of the target species
The Aim of the Project • To put into the practice
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT APPROACH (cycle)
Target Habitat Types
6230* - Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on siliceous substrates in mountane areas (and submountane areas, in Continental Europe)
6510 - Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis)
6520 - Mountain hay meadows
Uniqnuess of Krkonoše Mountains
Uniqnuess of Krkonoše Mountains
Uniqnuess of Krkonoše Mountains
1953
Studniční chalets
2013
Selected Enclaves
Deforestation
Rumex alpinus: Cutting and Spraying (RoundUp)
Water Regime Restoration
Farmers: Mowing and Grazing
Example: Achieved in 2014? Restoration management (carried out by the NP)
• restoration of water regime (4,5 km)
• Deforestation (7 ha)
• invasive species regulation (12 ha)
• leveling a surface (0,08 ha)
• stone gathering (4,58 tons)
Regular management (carried out by farmers)
• 330 ha with grazed or mowed
Budget: approx. 185 thousand EURO
Challenges and Questions To Be Discussed
1) How to keep the adaptive management approach when project is finished?
- problem of capacities – monitoring, planning of specific management activities, etc.
2) What a Favourable Conservation Status does mean?
- a difficulty to specify measurable reference values of the FCS for each habitat
Challenges and Questions To Be Discussed
3) Impossible to influence (or modify) agriculture subsidies (often harming the nature) – the main source of finances for farmers
- a current scheme of subsidies does not recognize production meadows apart from semi-natural meadows
- in history, mowing was the main type of management, currently it is substituted by grazing (because of finances)
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Thank you for attention
© Věra Hadincová