sharr/šar planina – korab – dešat/deshat - UNEP Vienna ISCC

© Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of KosovoMap 9: Strategic management planning for Mali Sharr National Park.The Protocol on cooperation between theMinistry for Protection of Environment of theRepublic of Serbia and the Ministry for SpacePlanning, Construction and Protection of theEnvironment of the Republic of Macedoniasigned in 1998 planned the preparation ofparallel applications to UNESCO-MaB Programmeconcerning the nomination of this areaas the common transboundary Biosphere Reserve,but this initiative was suspended due topolitical reasons. According to the UNECE PerformanceReview the national park was nominatedby the SFRJ government as the potentialUNESCO World Heritage Site, but this nominationwas deferred due to the uncertainty of thepolitical status of Kosovo. Similarly, offi cial consultationswith the FYR of Macedonia on thepossible coordination of protective measureswere suspended for the same reasons. Last,but not least, the SFRJ authorities planned thesignifi cant extension of the Sharr/Sara MountainNational Park territory by additional 80’000ha into the mountains to the south.Nature inventories of Mali Sharr NationalPark are mostly based on researches carriedout in the times of the former Socialist FederativeRepublic of Yugoslavia, in particular bythe Institute for Nature Conservation of Serbia(INCS), which had its local departmentin Prishtina. However, these researcheswere more oriented towards scientifi c studieson particular species and plant communitiesthan on nature conservation management.At the times of the SFRJ the protectivemeasures undertaken in the park area werebased on fi ve-year management plans, developedby INCS.PART 2. NATURE AND ITS PROTECTION IN THE AREA 73