EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.2.7
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
B NATIONAL PARK PLAN 2008 -– STATUS ANALYSI E
§ 2
Conservation Aim
(1) The reason for the land being under protection is the natural and semi-natural ecological systems of the National Park with
their typical plant and animal communities as well as the rocks and soils and to allow natural environmental factors and
dynamics to develop on at least 75% of the area (process protection).
(2) In addition, the National Park should – as far as it is compatible with the protective purpose -
1. manage the habitats of native plant and animal, or restore them, protect them from disturbance and promote the
natural re-establishment of displaced species promoted,
2. preserve or restore the special characteristic, regional beauty, peace and quiet of the area,
3. preserve culturally-historical and natural-historical valuable monuments and land and, where possible, restore,
4. scientifically observe and investigate the natural dynamism of the long-term relationships of the woodland, and
5. ensure the area is open and accessible to the population for recreational purposes and educational purposes.
(3) Other protective purpose is, a maintaining the condition of the habitats in the National Park zone and animal and plant
species of the supplements I, II and IV of the guideline 92/43/EWG of the advice by the 21 May 1992 (ABl. EC No. L 206 S.7),
last amended through guideline 97/62 EC of the advice of the 27 October 1997 (ABl. EC no. L 305 S. 42) (Habitats Directive),
and that after type. 4 sec.1 and 2 of the guideline 79/409 EEC of the advice of the 2 April 1979 over the maintenance of wild life
bird type (ABl. EC no. L 103 S.1), last amended through guideline 97/49/EG of the commission of the 29. July 1997 (ABl. EC
no. L 223 of the 13 August 1997 S. 9) (Birds Directive) as far as this is compatible with the protection purpose.
(4) In relation to the natural habitat types it is essentially for:
1. the priority habitat types: Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines (EU code 9180), Alluvial forests with
Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) (EU code 91E0) and Speciesrich
Nardus grassland, on siliceous substrates in mountain and submountain areas (EU-Code 6230)
2. the further habitats types: Luzulo-Fagetum beech forests (EU-Code 9110), Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests (EU-
Code 9130), Sub-Atlantic and medio-European oak or oak-hornbeam forests of the Carpinion betuli (EU-Code 9160),
bedstraw-oak-hornbeam woodlands (EU-Code 9170), European dry heaths (EU-Code 4030), Hydrophilous tall herb
fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels (EU-Code 6430), Medio-European siliceous scree
(EU-Code 8150), Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation (EU-Code 8220) and Siliceous rocky knolls
with pioneer vegetation (EU-Code 8230).
(5) Active protection measures for endangered species can be carried out according to the criteria of the IUCN guidelines only
on less than 25% of the National Park area.
(6) In the non-natural areas of the National Park, natural processes should be initiated and enabled by specific ecological
control measures. The individual measures required to reach the natural state are specified according to different areas in the
National Park Plan.
(7) The game distribution in the National Park is to be managed in a way that the protection criteria are not hindered.
(8) No commercial forestry is to take place the National Park.
§ 3
Regional Development
Through infrastructure-improving measures, the National Park should contribute to positive regional development.
§ 4
National Park Plan
(1) Concepts, management measures and development measures of the National Park are to be shown in a National Park Plan.
This contains particular measures and plans for the achieving the conservation aim at §2. In particular:
1. Process-, Biotope- and species- protection,
2. Care of the woodland and open spaces,
3. Encure and control of recreational and visitor traffic,
4. Education and Public Relations,
5. Game population control,
6. Scientific documentation and research, and
7. Fulfill the reporting duties of the Habitats Directive and Birds Directive.
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