EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

LIST OF PROJECT WORK PACKAGES
AND ACTIONS
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Indicators: • costs/benefits ratio
Milestones: • cost/benefits assessment of proposed measures 31. October 2009
Work Package 4:
Proposing area-designation and management plans based on primeval forests dynamics
Description of work:
Findings from WP 3 will be directly projected into the proposals of corridors connecting the Carpathian primeval forests threatened by the
loss of biodiversity, as well as into proposed management plans adjusted to the fulfillment of ecological-production and environmental functions,
as well as biodiversity support and conservation. Similarly, forest units will be identified within all forest categories (commercial, protective,
special purposes), in the management of which components of natural dynamics can be incorporated and then implemented in a controlled
manner with the ultimate goal of increasing the provision of desired composition of forest functions.
Action 4.1:
Area-designation of ecological corridors and forest units for amended forest management
Work description: The proposed area-designation of connecting corridors and suitable forest units. i. e. those across which a substantial
increase in the implementation of natural processes is possible and desired, will be conducted based on the evaluation of the ecological
survey formerly carried out by Lesoprojekt, remote sensing and GIS, as well as field inspections if necessary.
The ecological corridors will be set up to connect the primeval forests of the following four clusters (see map, Annex VIII.):
1. NPR Vtáãnik, Badín, Mláãik, Svrãiník;
2. NPR Poºana, Hronãeck˘ GrúÀ, Dobroã, Klenovsk˘ Vepor;
3. NPR Pod Latiborskou Hoºou, ëumbier, Skalka;
4. NPR Have‰ová, RoÏok, StuÏica, Udava, Pºa‰a, Vihorlat.
Indicators: • number and area of proposed ecological corridors
• number and area of suitable forest units
Milestones: • maps of ecological corridors 31. December 2008
• maps of suitable forest units 31. May 2009
Action 4.2:
Proposals of management principles and routines for nature-based management of biodiversity,
water and carbon in forest ecosystems
Description of work: Principles and routines for updating and creation of forest management plans for forests of all categories, and management
programs for protected areas, based on the reliance on a substantially increased role played by natural dynamics, according
the results expected from WP 1 a WP 2.
Indicators: • increase of natural dynamics ratio in the proposed forest management
Milestones: • proposals of the managm. plans of ecological corridors 31. December 2009
• proposals of the managm. plans for suitable forest units 30. March 2010