Poloniny National Park Management Plan
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State Nature Conservancy of the Slovak Republic, Banská Bystrica Poloniny National Park Administration, Stak čín POLONINY NATIONAL PARK MANAGEMENT PLAN 1 July 2015 1. BASIC DETAILS ........................................................................................................................................... 2 1.1. Number according to the national catalogue if assigned ............................................................................. 2 1.2. Inclusion in a European network of protected areas and areas of international significance ...................... 2 1.3. Category and name of the area .................................................................................................................... 2 1.4. Legal regulation declaring the protected area or an international certificate on the inclusion of the area into a network of areas of international significance ........................................................................... 2 1.5. Total area of the protected area and its buffer zone..................................................................................... 3 1.6. Current state of the object of conservation .................................................................................................. 3 1.6.1. Natural conditions (geographic location, geological, geomorphological, climatic, hydrological and soil conditions, biotopes, flora, significant abiotic phenomena, landscape elements)................... 7 1.6.1.1. Geographic location..................................................................................................................... 7 1.6.1.2. Geology........................................................................................................................................ 7 1.6.1.3. Geomorphology ........................................................................................................................... 8 1.6.1.4. Climatic conditions...................................................................................................................... 8 1.6.1.5. Soil conditions ............................................................................................................................. 8 1.6.1.6. Hydrography................................................................................................................................ 8 1.6.1.7. Biotopes, flora, associations ........................................................................................................ 9 1.6.1.8. Fauna ......................................................................................................................................... 12 1.6.1.9. Significant abiotic phenomena................................................................................................... 15 1.6.1.10. Landscape elements ................................................................................................................. 16 1.6.2. Brief description of the object of conservation ................................................................................... 16 1.6.3. Evaluating the status of the object of conservation, setting conservation priorities............................ 20 1.6.4. Evaluation of other specific interests of nature and landscape conservation in the area..................... 34 1.7. Results of the Comprehensive Forest Condition Survey ........................................................................... 38 2. Socio-economic conditions: use of the area and its surroundings, positive and negative factors)........ Chyba! Záložka nie je definovaná. 2.1. Historical overview ................................................................................................................................... 41 2.2. Brief description of current situation......................................................................................................... 42 2.2.1. Conservation ...................................................................................................................................... 42 2.2.2 Agriculture ......................................................................................................................................... 42 2.2.3 Forestry .............................................................................................................................................. 44 2.2.4 Hunting............................................................................................................................................... 48 2.2.5 Fishery................................................................................................................................................ 49 2.2.6 Mining and quarrying......................................................................................................................... 50 2.2.7 Use of water ....................................................................................................................................... 50 2.2.8. Recreation and sports ......................................................................................................................... 51 2.2.8.1 Tourist activities .................................................................................................................. 51 2.2.8.2 Accommodation facilties ..................................................................................................... 52 2.2.9. Cultural heritage and religious activity............................................................................................... 53 2.3 Proposed principles and measures for using the national park and the surrounding area in terms of conservation objectives ............................................................................................................................. 57 3. Care objectives and achievement measures .................................................................................................. 60 3.1. The establishment of long-term care objectives linked to functional ecological spaces and zones........... 60 3.2 The establishment of operational objectives related to ecological functional spaces................................ 60 3.3. Framework planning and models of management for forest biotopes....................................................... 62 3.4. The proposed measures, the setting of a timetable for their fulfilment, the determination of entities responsible for their fulfilment, and the setting of measurable fulfilment indicators................................ 69 4. The means of evaluating the fulfilment of the forest care programme ......................................................... 70 5. Bibliography ................................................................................................................................................. 71 6. Minimal Annexes.......................................................................................................................................... 74 1 POLONINY NATIONAL PARK MANAGEMENT PLAN 1. BASIC DETAILS 1.1. Number according to the national catalogue if assigned Not assigned. 1.2. Inclusion in a European network of protected areas and areas of international significance Protected bird area: SKCHVÚ002 Bukovské vrchy declared by Decree of the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic No. 25/2008 of 24 January 2008 Areas of European significance: A part belongs to SKUEV0210 Stinská, according to Ordinance of the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic No. 3/2004-5.1 of 14 July 2004 issuing a national catalogue of areas of European significance A part belongs to SKUEV0229 Bukovské vrchy, according to Ordinance of the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic No. 3/2004-5.1 of 14 July 2004 issuing a national catalogue of areas of European significance A part belongs to SKUEV0234 Uli čka, according to Ordinance of the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic No. 3/2004-5.1 of 14 July 2004 issuing a national catalogue of areas of European significance Areas of international significance: 1. A part of the area belongs to the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany which, in accordance with Decision of the World Heritage Committee No. 31 COM 8B.16, became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2007. 2. The area is part of the International Biosphere Reserve of the Eastern Carpathians included in the global network of biosphere reserves by the decision of the Coordinating Council of the UNESCO programme on Man and the Biosphere in 1992. 3. The area has held the European Diploma, awarded by the Council of Europe, since 1998. 1.3. Category and name of the area Category: national park Name of the area: Poloniny 1.4. Legal regulation declaring the protected area or an international certificate on the inclusion of the area into a network of areas of international significance The Poloniny National Park (hereinafter only “Poloniny NP”) was declared by Regulation of the Government of the Slovak Republic No. 258/1997 declaring the Poloniny NP. The Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians as an area belonging to two states (Slovakia and Ukraine) was inscribed onto the UNESCO World Heritage List under number 1133 based on Decision of the World Heritage Committee No. 31 COM 8B.16, adopted at its 31st meeting on 23 2 June–2 July 2007 in Christchurch, New Zealand (http://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/1314 ). The area was later extended to include German areas and became