NRP possesses more than 800 plots of land, which are scattered throughout the intermittent lake area. In the scope of the project LIFE TRŠCA, we will purchase and exchange another 100 ha of land. The amount of plots we deal with and the data we collect is so large that data management has become a serious bottleneck. Project partners NRP, ZRSVN, and DOPPS, will therefore develop and establish an online GIS database, that will serve to manage all the information necessary to master and control the land management. In the scope of task T.3.1, two trips abroad are foreseen to visit organizations that use similar GIS database systems and exchange knowledge with them.
The new database module will be an integral part of the national Nature Conservation Atlas and available to all Slovenian nature parks and organizations involved in nature conservation-oriented land management in Slovenia.
Status: Task is in progress
Results:
There are several 100 ha of land in the intermittent Lake Cerknica area with unclear ownership. There are several reasons for this: firstly, the inheritance procedures after the death of the landowner were not executed; secondly, the inheritance of land according to the principle of shares; and thirdly, the process of transferring lands from the former communal property in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the agrarian community was not carried out. The consequence of the unclear ownership situation is that NRP often cannot acquire land for nature conservation-oriented management. As a result, these plots of land are now abandoned and overgrown by copse, or even worse – they are illegally occupied by third parties. We will therefore review the ownership of all land plots in the project area and engage a lawyer, who will provide us with a legal opinion on how the various types of existing ownership relationships can be clarified.
Status: Task is in progress
Results:
This task will concentrate on land exchanges. Land plots possessed by the NRP and suitable for annual mowing will be exchanged with privately owned areas of marsh vegetation where annual land use is not desirable and even leads to the degradation of the ecosystem in some places. We will also conduct land plot exchanges to round off the properties thus making them easier to manage.
Status: Not due yet
Results:
The purchase of land in the scope of this task will be focused primarily on the most sensitive land in terms of marshland biodiversity conservation. NRP will acquire 10 ha of vital and potentially vital reed beds and 40 ha of tall sedge communities and mixed communities of reeds and sedges. On the purchased and exchanged land, we will establish important microhabitats – patches of open water, which are feeding areas for the Ferruginous duck and Red-necked grebe. Such patches of open water surrounded by reeds, which provide cover from predators and other disturbances, promise suitable breeding habitats also for other reedbed bird species.
Status: Not due yet
Results:
The implementation of extensive nature conservation projects exceeds the financial capacity of the local community, therefore Notranjska Park regularly applies for projects with the possibility of co-financing by the European Union.
The implementation of large-scale conservation projects exceeds the financial capabilities of the local community, therefore Notranjska Park regularly applies for projects with the possibility of co-financing from the European Union.
