Jan Šeffer. Sites of Community Interest / Special Areas of Conservation

Support to Ukraine in approximation of the EU environmental acquis APENAThis project is funded by the European Union

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Session ІІІ. Sites of Community Interest / Special Areas of Conservation

Jan Šeffer

Training “Implementation of Habitats Directive - Habitats and Plants“


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Natura 2000Definition

(1) Natura 2000 is defined as a ‘coherent’ European ecological network.

(2) It comprises both SACs and SPAs.

(3) It is independent of other networks, e.g. national or international.

(4) Natura 2000 is to enable the natural habitat types and the species’ habitats concerned to be maintained or, where appropriate, restored at a favourable conservation status in their natural range.



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Natura 2000• The EU Birds and Habitats Directives form the cornerstone of EU nature

conservation • EU member states are obliged to designate and protect sites according to

target habitats and species of community (EU) importance • Article 6(1) of Directive 92/43/EEC. „For special areas of conservation,

Member States shall establish the necessary conservation measures involving, if need be, appropriate management plans specifically designed for the sites...“

• Both Directives protect over 1.000 animal and plant species • and over 200 so called "habitat types" (e.g. special types of forests,

meadows, wetlands, etc.), which are of European importance.



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Natura 2000 Member State

area in sq. km SCI SPA Natura

2000 BG 110 910 29,98% 22,61% 34,32% CZ 78 866 9,96% 8,92% 14,03% HR 56 594 28,26% 30,11% 36,53% HU 93 030 15,53% 14,78% 21,44% LT 65 301 9,40% 8,40% 12,08% LU 2 597 15,93% 5,45% 18,08% LV 64 589 11,49% 10,24% 11,53% PL 312 685 10,82% 15,47% 19,53% RO 238 391 16,68% 14,83% 22,56% SI 20 273 32,73% 25,00% 37,85% SK 48 845 11,95% 26,83% 29,57% EU28 4 290 148 14,01% 12,51% 18,36%



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Conceptual Model for Conservation of N2000 Habitats and Species

Monitoring

IS on habitats and species link to MP

Information

on efectivity

Reporting to EC

N2000 habitats and species

Data

Implementation of MP

EIA

Agri-environment



Establishment of Natura 2000 in Slovakia


Emerald network 1998 - 2000 - project for preparation Natura 2000 under protection of Emerald network are diferent habitats and species

comparing with Natura 2000 not useful as network for preparation Natura 2000 advantage – we found how big gaps in data we have requirement for new catalogue of habitats with conections to other

classifications of habitats (Emerald, CORINE, Natura 2000, PalHab, EUNIS, national classification, Forest typology)

in 2000 start of preparation of Natura 2000 network Emerald without official results



Development of interpretation manual of Slovak habitats



Amendments to Annexes of Directives- 2000 – 2003- first comunication with DG Environment and ETC - amendments we prepared with experts from scientific organisations, institutions and

NGOs- in some cases there was very short time to disscus amendments with other

accession states (for example Poland – Campanula serrata)

Annex I HD Annex II HD Annex I BD

habitats plants animals birdsbefore amendments 61 19 66 110present situation 66 51 99 110occurrence only in Slovakia 2 6 0 0



Habitats and species from Annex I and II in the Slovak RepublicFormation class priority other 1. COASTAL AND HALOPHYTE HABITATS 2 2. COASTAL AND INLAND SAND DUNES 1 3. FRESHWATER HABITATS 9 4. MOORS AND FRUTESCENT HABITATS OF MILD CLIMATE 2 3 5. THICK-LEAVED BUSHES (MATORALS) 1 6. NATURAL AND SEMI-NATURAL GRASSLAND-HERBAL HABITATS 7 9 7. RAISED BOGS, TEMPORARY PEATLANDS AND BLACK BOGS 3 4 8. HABITATS OF ROCKS, RUBBLE AND CAVES 2 7 9. FORESTS 6 11 Total 23 44

GROUP priority other VERTEBRATES 6 43 INVERTEBRATES 7 39 HIGHER PLANTS 12 25 LOWER PLANTS 7 TOTAL 25 114



Phase 1 (2001-2002 ): Elaboration of scientific proposal of SCIs

Phase 2 (spring 2003):Adjustment of borders with regard to the cadastral maps

Phase 3 (August - October 2003)Negotiations with the landowners and users

Phase 4 (November 2003 – March 2004)Discussion and approval of National list of SCIs in the Government

Establishment of NATURA 2000 network in Slovakia(2001-2004)



Phase 1: Elaboration of scientific proposal of SCIs

STEP 2: GRID LAYER CREATION

STEP 3: WEIGHING DATA ON DISTRIBUTION OF TAXON/HABITAT

STEP 4: SYNTHESIS OF ALL LAYERS

STEP 5: PRE-SELECTION OF SCIs

STEP 6: TESTING OF SUFFICIENCY OF PRE-SCIs

STEP 1: PREPARATION OF DATA



PreNaturaDBStructure according to Natura2000 database

Additional Information:GIS calculationCORINE - overlapping ImpactStatus of protectionLiterature

NATURA2000 DATABASE

Different databases + GIS (13 identified)

NATURA2000 Sites selectionGIS layers of different NATURA species and habitats for spatial analyses.

CentralDB + GIS

HabitatsPlant species Animal species Birds




Field mapping:Mapping of grasslands

- Daphne- mapping since 1998 in scale 1:25 000- more than 9500 localities and 530 000 species records

Mapping of peatlands- Daphne- mapping since 2001 in scale 1:10 000- cca 600 localities and 9 200 species records

Mapping of other non-forest habitats- State Nature Conservancy SR- mapping since 2002 in scale 1:25 000- cca 1 000 localities - 30% of anticipated area

Mapping of flora and fauna species- SNC SR and other institutions- mapping since 2002 in scale 1:10 000 - mapped down ca 90% of existing populations of flora species - mapped down ca 30% of existing populations of fauna species

together more than 350 mappers




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Overlap of 200 layers of distribution of habitats and species - the basis for the pre-SCIs delineation

The darkest dots represent places with the highest diversity of habitats and species




Overlap of layers of habitats and species with a value more than 200 (range is 1-300)




Delination of areas was done according to the expert consideration of a gradient of two previous grid layers

STEP 5: PRE-SELECTION OF SCIs



Phase 2 (spring 2003):Adjustment of borders with regard to the cadastral maps

- The pSCIs borders were adjusted with regard to the cadastral maps in scale 1:5000

- The reduced area of pSCIs arose from exclusion of urban and arable land



Phase 3 (August - October 2003)Negotiations with the landowners and users

- Identified 68 000 land parcels - 40 000 owners- more then 350 meetings - participation of owners 59%Results:- 30,9% agreement- 15,8% conditional agreement- 12,6% disagreement- 38% no expression- 2,7% asked for extra time for expression

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Phase 4 (2003 - 2004)Discussion on National List of SCIs in the Government- on December 17-th 2003 first negotiation meeting - National List not approved- new meetings with landowners, ministries...- reduction of the sites and area- on March 17-th 2004 second negotiation meeting National List approved



Phase 4 (2003 - 2004)

Discussion on National List of SCIs in the Government

- on December 17-th 2003 first negotiation meeting - National List not approved- new meetings with landowners, ministries...- reduction of the sites and area- on March 17-th 2004 second negotiation meeting National List approved



Scientific vs. Governmental Proposal of pSCIs

Red areas – accepted by Govnmt. (382 sites - 11.72% of country)Overlaping with the existing protected areas - 86 %Blue areas – not included (474 sites - 6.48% of country)



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Alpine biogeographic seminarArea pSCIs

(%)Sufficient

species and habitats (%)

SVK 15,3 66,3POL 25,3 54,4SLO 55,2 77,0

Pannonian biogeographic seminarArea pSCIs

(%)Sufficient

species and habitats (%)

SVK 4,3 58,5HUN 15,1 83,2CZE 11,7 85,2


Jan Šeffer. Sites of Community Interest / Special Areas of Conservation

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