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Restoration prioritisation and opportunities in the Czech Republic Jan Plesnk Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic Prague Capacity-building workshop for the Europe region on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support


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Restoration prioritisation and

  • pportunities in the Czech

Republic

Jan Plesník Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic Prague

Capacity-building workshop for the Europe region on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets International Academy for Nature Conservation (INA), Isle of Vilm, Germany 2-6 June 2014

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Ecosystem management

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Ecosystem management

  • Outline of the presentation:
  • Landscape development in what is now

the Czech Republic

  • Post-mining area restoration
  • Former military training area restoration
  • Water ecosystem restoration
  • Forest ecosystem restoration
  • Ecosystem restoration and climate change
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Ecosystem management

  • The Czech

Republic covers 78,867 km2

  • The population is

10.5 million inhabitants (2014)

  • EU Member State

since 2014

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Ecosystem management

1838 first protected area had been declared by a private owner By the 1950s, a mosaic of extensively used farmland and forest habitats was developed

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Ecosystem management

  • In the 1950s, shift

to farmer cooperatives (kolkhozs): large block of arable land

  • Heavy industry had

been developed

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Ecosystem management

  • In the 1970s,

intensive mass agricultural production

  • High level of

contamination by pollutants (e.g., the Black Triangle)

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Ecosystem management

  • A mere 17% of the

Czech Republic´s territory is covered with natural or near-natural habitats

  • Miko & Hošek (eds.): State of

nature and the landscape in the Czech Republic (2009)

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Ecosystem management

Ecosystem restoration aims at

  • Post-mining and post-

industrial sites

  • Forests
  • Wetlands incl. water

streams

  • Grasslands
  • Abandoned military

areas

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Ecosystem management

Opinions: Technical reclamation Natural succession Combination of both the approaches

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Ecosystem management

Post-mining areas

  • Extensive open-cast

brown coal mining spoil heaps in Northern Bohemia

  • Black coal mining

spoil heaps in Northern Moravia

  • Uranium mining
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Ecosystem management

Former military training areas

  • Extreme local

contamination by various chemicals

  • Examples of the

extensively used landscape with unique habitats

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Ecosystem management

  • Grasslands are

threatened by natural succession

  • f shrubs and trees
  • Man-made

management imitating periodical military training

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Ecosystem management

  • Spontaneous

succession in abandoned karst quarries result in the same species richness as technical reclamation, but in there are more threatened species

  • Tropek et al., J. appl. Ecol., 47,

139-147, 2010

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Ecosystem management

  • The Water System

Restoration Programme

  • 1994 - 2010
  • Subvention

programme/subsidi ary scheme

  • Managed by the

NAC CR

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Ecosystem management

Forest ecosystem restoration Dead forests in areas affected by air pollution Native v. non- native species Troubles with some elements in soils

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Ecosystem management

  • Main policy documents:
  • State Environmental Policy of the Czech

Republic 2012 – 2020 (2012)

  • State Nature Conservation and Landscape

Protection Programme of the Czech Republic (updated 2009)

  • National Biodiversity Strategy of the Czech

Republic (updated 2009)

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Ecosystem management

  • Near-natural

restoration vs. technical reclamation of mining sites in the Czech Republic

  • Řehounková, Řehounek & Prach
  • eds. (2011)
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Ecosystem management

  • Ecosystem

restoration in the Czech Republic

  • Jongepierová, Jongepier & Prach
  • eds. (2012)
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Ecosystem management

  • I am interested in

my future because that is where I am going to spend the rest of my life.

  • Charles Spencer Chaplin
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Ecosystem management

  • Species respond to

climate change in three ways: Adaptation Following their climate zones either towards the poles or to higher elevations Becoming extinct

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Ecosystem management

  • Novel ecosystems
  • Restoration of

biological corridors

  • Restoration of a

mosaic of many mesoclimatically and microclimatically different habitat patches

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Ecosystem management

  • Climate change

mitigation measures

  • Peat-bog

restoration funded by the NCA CR and by a big electricity company in northern Bohemia

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Ecosystem management

  • In July 1997 the

three last greater floodplain forest complexes in Moravia kept three times more water than all dams in the watershed of Morava and Odra Rivers combined

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Ecosystem management

Natural processes should be employed as much as possible

  • Carbon cycle
  • Water cycle
  • Flood protection
  • Soil protection
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Ecosystem management

Natural processes should be employed as much as possible

  • Carbon cycle
  • Water cycle
  • Flood protection
  • Soil protection
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Ecosystem management

  • Synergies between

climate change protection and nature conservation and landscape protection

  • The Landscape

Natural Function Restoration Programme since 2009

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Ecosystem management

  • Look deep into

nature, and than you will understand everything better

  • Albert Einstein
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Ecosystem management

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Thank you very much for your attention

jan.plesnik@nature.cz