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TransEuropeanWildlifeNetworks TEWN Dr. Thomas Kaphegyi
The countries on the Balkan Peninsula still host natural landscapes
valuable due to habitat quality and size. by sound balancing the
requirements of landscape conservation with infrastructural planning,
an international expert team targets on ensuring the prerequisites for
maintainance of functional habitat networks.
The Balkan Peninsula hosts natural landscapes outstanding in Europe for their
low degree of fragmentation. The Balkan region therefore is the most
important distribution range for large mammals in Europe, and the area
constitutes a high priority spot for European nature conservation in general.
Otherwise, mainly the new member-states of the European Union in this
region currently undergo a dramatic increase of the transport infrastructure
development. Despite of European Union conservation regulation mandatory
for all members, the danger of underrating landscape conservation
requirements in favour of infrastructure development is immanent with the
periods of industrial improvement. To prevent from non reversible habitat
destruction and landscape fragmentation, a sound balancing of infrastructure
planning and conservation issues is urgently required from the outset.
Our project described here is meant to strengthen the position of nature
conservation in the political discourse and to institutionalise the significance of
landscape conservation in the decision making processes. Establishing an
international expert network and knowledge pools, we aim on knowledge
transfer and exchange of experience between the countries on the Balkan
Peninsula. These processes result into methodological and technical support
for the development of fragmentation mitigation strategies on national and
supra national level. Based on the experience and alliances of the project
partners, we target on definite implementation of these transboundary
conservation schemes and strategies into the planning processes and political
decision making of the respective countries.
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