Competitions

The project is aimed at the conservation of 6 plant species, 5 of them endemics. Besides this, 5 insect species and 3 dry grassland habitats are targeted by the project. Most of the species have a significantly decreasing population trend and urgent action is needed to halt it.

The project area includes 7 NATURA 2000 sites in Hungary and 17 in Slovakia, located in a contact zone of Alpine and Pannonian bioregions.

The goal of the project is to develop and apply conservation management tools for increasing structural and compositional biodiversity in NATURA2000 oak forests.

In the framework of this 5-year-long project – started in September 2013 – Duna-Ipoly National Park Directorate (DINPD) is directly aiming at the protection of the following priority habitat types: Sub-Pannonic steppic grasslands (6240), pannonic loess steppic grasslands (6250) and Pannonic sand steppes (6260).