EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.3.1
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
Output І.3: An operation management for the realization of the IMS
Activity І.3.1**: Provide operational management for the Management System in
order to support administrations of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve (Ukraine),
Poloniny National Park (Slovakia) and the German National Parks Jasmund,
Müritz-Serrahn, Kellerwald-Edersee, Hainich and the Biosphere Reserve
Schorfheide-Chorin (Germany) including:
Prepare the meetings of the JMC and agree with the Committee members on the
agendas;
Elaborate draft action plans, control the realization of the IMS, the work packages
and the action plans;
Invite other interested parties, especially the IMS Panel representatives to the JMC
meetings;
Formally establish relations with regional authorities:
in Ukraine: Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the Zakarpats’ka
Oblast, Transcarpathian Regional State Administration;
in Slovakia: governments of Prešov and Košice Self-governing Regions, municipal
authorities;
in Germany: Competent State (Länder) Ministries in Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania,
Hesse, Thuringia and Brandenburg
Implement other issues of the JMC or elaborate new proposals for the Action plan
(see annex 2).
Activity I.3.2**: Conduct regularly together with local authorities and other interested
parties, and those represented in the IMP Panel in particular, the operational management
concerning biodiversity conservation and sustainable development of the
region, especially in the buffer zones of the serial property.
Output І.4: Realisation of separate points of the Management System and establishing
of special working groups
Activity І.4.1**: Appoint Joint Management Committee mechanisms for the Integrated
Management System realization;
Activity І.4.2**: Develop special projects and constitute working groups for the implementation
of separate points of the Integrated Management System;
Activity І.4.3**: Estimate results of working groups output and elaborate new proposals
for the IMS.
Output І.5: Optimise borders of the property and its buffer zones
Activity І.5.1*: Optimise borders of the property and its buffer zones, where appropriate.
The JMC will make proposals to the national or state authorities;
Activity І.5.2***: Study possibilities for extension of the serial property by Romanian
and Polish localities in cooperation with Romanian and Polish experts;
Objective II: Ensuring the most effective nature conservation of the serial property
Output II.1: Improving the conservation of beech primeval forests as an integral
biological formation
Activity II.1.1*: Analyze in detail existing information on virgin and old growth forests
of the serial property;
Activity II.1.2**: Continued investigations of structure, functions and biogeochemical
cycles in virgin and old growth forests;
Activity II.1.3**: Develop GIS-maps of vegetation and habitats;
Activity II.1.4***: Analyse the plant-animal-interaction in virgin and old growth beech
forests;
Activity II.1.5***: Introduce in some areas a non-intervention wildlife management in
the nominated properties (Germany).
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