Diverse Habitat Reconstructions in the Őrség National Park in Hungary

NWRM

Application scale

Field Scale

Age

Performance timescale

1 - 4 years

Area subject to Land use change or Management/Practice change (ha)

13100

Favourable preconditions

Positive way: The areas belong to the National Park only small territories were required to be purchased

Design contractual arrangement

No data

Design consultation activity

No data

Design land use change

No data

Design authority

Authority type	Role	Responsibility	Name	Comments
Other	Implementation		Årség National Park Directorate	National Park

Key lessons

Rehabilitation of habitats where the initial status is still remembered and the land is already publicly owned is a "low hanging fruit" to implement. EU funds have an important role to make these changes happen. While at the same time these good examples are the first but not sufficient elements to initiate similar changes in privately owned agricultural lands

Success factor(s)

Success factor type	Success factor role	Comments
Existing staff and consultant knowledge	main factor
Financing possibilities	main factor

Financing

Financing type	Comments
EU-funds: Cohesion and regional development funds

Barrier

No data

Driver

Driver type	Driver role	Comments
Organisation committed to it	main driver	The financial sources provided the possibility for implementing measures that were considered necessary.
Availability of subsidies	main driver

Policy description

Environmental degradation due to former agricultural and forestry practices.

Part of wider plan

Policy target

Target purpose
Improved Biodiversity

Policy pressure

No data

Policy area

No data

Policy impact

No data

Policy wider plan

No data

Policy requirement directive

No data

Costs investment

194400

Costs investment information

EUR 2012 Exchange rate
1st component breeding ponds 22,000€
2nd component habitat mosaics 154,300€
3rd component closures 18,100€

Costs capital

194400

Costs land acquisition

2100

Costs land acquisition unit

€ (total value)

Costs operation maintenance

560

Costs operational

260

Costs operational information

1st component cleaning of the ponds

Costs maintenance

300

Costs maintenance information

2nd component for ten years initial care for the new habitat mosaicss

Information on Ecosystem improved biodiversity

1st component: Collected run off in forest provide safe conditions for reptiles to breed - habitat provision. Flood security was not named among the services because the small scale of the sites.
2nd component, habitat mosaics in agricultural land provide habitat service, and amenity services. The nutrient reduction potential was not named.
3rd component the closure of the drainage channel provides stability to the wetland-forest ecosystem (amenities). It also enhances biomass production. Decreasing run off is obvious, but its scale is small in itself.
The site is an important element of the migration path along the stream †“ habitat services.

National Id

HU_4

Site name

Csörnöc-Herpenyő river, Vas County, Nádasd village

Summary

There are three measures applied in the national park area primarily for nature rehabilitation, but all measures have water retention aspects. (1) Creating ponds in the forest where run off from forestry roads are collected. The main goal is to create safe breeding ground for reptiles instead of temporary sumps on the roads. (2) Re-vegetating shelterbelts (groves, wetlands) in agricultural land where 50 years ago these landscape elements were destroyed for agro efficiency reasons. (3) Building closures in the drainage channels to enable the flooding of the alder (Alnus) forest and wet meadow to improve their natural quality an important site in the ecological corridor along the stream Csörnöc.

NUTS Code

Nyugat-Dunántúl

RBD code

HU1000

Transboundary

Data provider

Gábor Ungvári, REKK

EEA core metadata

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