Preservation of floodplain forests, Slovakia

NWRM

Application scale

Field Scale

Installation date

2007-03

Area (ha)

12450

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

12450

Public consultation

Design contractual arrangement

No data

Design consultation activity

Activity stage	Key issues	Name	Comments
		Dissemination activities	tickers, posters, postcards, information panels and a website (in Slovak and English) and organising field excursions and training seminars

Design land use change

No data

Design authority

Authority type	Role	Name
NGO	Initiation of the measure	BROZ - Regional Association for Nature Conservation and Sustainable Development
National water authority		State Nature Conservancy of Slovak Republic
Local water authority		National park Donauauen (Austria)

Key lessons

Management plans created in environmentla projects have the chance to enlarge Nature reserves and other protected areas.

Success factor(s)

No data

Financing

Financing type	Comments
EU-funds: LIFE+

Barrier

Barrier type	Barrier role	Comments
Other	main barrier	Initial problems with land purchases

Driver

No data

Financing share type	Share	Comments
European funds	65

Policy description

The building of the Gabcikovo dam and canal strongly affected this inland river delta; forest management, as pursued in the 1990s, was not sustainable and did not take the potential natural forest into consideration; and pollution, eutrophication and increasing intensification of the nearby agricultural environment were also having a negative effect on fauna and flora.

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

Wider plan type	Wider plan focus	Name	Comments
Project-based	Forestry	Sustainable Forest Management Framework Strategy

Policy requirement directive

No data

Direct benefits information

New forest management plans were elaborated and approved for LHC Rusovce, Samorin, Gabcikovo and Calovo. These plans cover the whole project site area , include principal requirements for conservation and management of the Annex I habitats - residual alluvial forests and mixed oak-elm-ashforests.
The Gajc nature reserve was enlarged from 0.84 to 62.72 ha and a new 76.7 ha nature reserve, Stary haj, was designated. Proposals to designate two further areas (Foras and Gabcikovske luhy) as nature reserves and one (Pecniansky les)as a protected site were submitted to the competent authorities, along with proposals to enlarge the existing nature reserves at Ostrovne lucky and Cicovskemrtve rameno. The total area of the new proposed protected areas is 1 935.68 ha,substantially exceeding the original project plan of 549 ha.

Costs total

570000

Ecosystem improved biodiversity

Information on Ecosystem improved biodiversity

The improved conservation status of forest habitats has had a positive impact on a number of Annex II species, including Cerambyx cerdo, Lucanus cervus,
Osmoderma eremita, Myotis myotis, Barbastella barbastellus, Myotis dasycneme and Myotis bechsteini. It has also benefited a number of species listed in the
annexes of the Birds Directive, such as Dryocopus martius, Dendrocopos syriacus, Dendrocopos medius, Ciconia nigra, Haliaeetus albicilla, Milvus milvus, Milvus
migrans and many others.

Ecosystem impact climate regulation

Not relevant for the specific application

National Id

Slovakia_7

Site name

100km long from Bratislava to the souht

Summary

DANUBE FORESTS, coordinated by BROZ - Regional Association for Nature Conservation and Sustainable Development and funded by LIFE program, preserves the remaining natural floodplain forests in the Slovak part of the Danube inland delta and introduce sound and sustainable forest management practices to the area.

NUTS Code

Bratislavský kraj

RBD code

SK40000

Transboundary

Data provider

REC

Longitude

17.2038

Latitude

48.06638

EEA core metadata

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