EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

− Activity IV.4.1***: Conduct regular meetings, seminars and workshops
between the protected areas staff, representatives from interesting parties,
NGOs and science teams for joint planning, co-ordinate and evaluate activities
in the serial property and its buffer zones, as well as to enhance knowledge
transfer;
− Activity IV.4.2**: Use of databases from partner organizations, in particular
of research and educational organizations in planning and developing decisions
regarding biodiversity conservation and sustainable development of the serial
property and its buffer zones.
Output IV.5: Using legislative framework for the protection of the serial property
and its buffers zones and a balanced use of the connecting corridors
− Activity IV.5.1**: Identify “gaps” in the present national legislations, and the
Zakarpats’ka Oblast Parliament (Ukraine) and Presov Self-governing Region
(Slovakia) acts whose existence could potentially allow for uncontrolled
exploitation of natural resources in the buffer zones and connecting corridors
(e.g. overgrazing, wood-cutting etc), violation of indigenous serial property
rights, and habitat destruction (damaging of local people houses, quarrying,
recreation overactivities, etc.); identify any contradictory regulations, overlaps
of governments jurisdictions, gaps in treatment of issues and unrealistic
enforcement of regulations;
− Activity IV.5.2***: Propose revision of the present legislation to improve
protection and management of the serial property and its buffer zones;
− Activity IV.5.3: Adjust the enforcement capacity to implement the above
mentioned legislative and regulatory mechanisms.
Objective V: to promote environmental education and awareness
Output V.1: Increase public awareness and organize conservation awareness
campaigns
− Activity V.1.1**: Further develop communication skills of protected areas
staff, who are responsible for education in the sphere of conservation, carry out
ecological monitoring, develop methods for sustainable development and
implement special protected measures in the Carpathian region;
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