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Session ІІІ. Sites of Community Interest / Special Areas of Conservation
Jan Šeffer
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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
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Establishment of Natura 2000 in Slovakia
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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
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Development of interpretation manual of Slovak habitats
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
STEP 1: PREPARATION OF DATA
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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
STEP 1: PREPARATION OF DATA
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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
STEP 4: SYNTHESIS OF ALL LAYERS
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Overlap of layers of habitats and species with a value more than 200 (range is 1-300)
STEP 4: SYNTHESIS OF ALL LAYERS
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Delination of areas was done according to the expert consideration of a gradient of two previous grid layers
STEP 5: PRE-SELECTION OF SCIs
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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
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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
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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
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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
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