Military training areas and Natura 2000 in Czechia

Mojmir Vlasin

Veronica

Czech Union for Nature Conservation

Act 114/1992 Sb. (Nature conservation act) last amended 2004

• described a duty of establishing Natura 2000• listed authorities in the field of nature conservancy

among them you can find „military area administration“

(also parish, NP, PLA, MoE ) 

Military training areas

We have 2 abandoned previous Soviet army military training areas (MTA) but both are now under civil authority.

There are now 5 existing MTA in CR (excluding those, which are very small like shutting ranches etc)

Three of them (!) are proposed SPA for Natura 2000 network.

But .....But for all of them are plans for ski

resorts etc. - which are able to destroyed and eat away nature value.

Especially MTA ( and SPA) Boletice is really endangered by activities of South- bohemian region (land). Hetman (marshal) Zahradnik is really aggrieved to changing MTA to the ski resort.

But, but ....

MTA Doupovské hory is a special case : in the first moment it looks that flash out a big conflict between army and nature conservancy. But on the end army accepted all limitations and agreed with SPA as a part of Natura 2000.

Management plans

For this mentioned 3 MTA/SPA are management plans in preparation. See www.natura2000.cz (Boletice, Doupovské hory and Libava)

Who is the best care taker ?

insted : set a wolf to keep sheepwe have : set a goat to be gardenerZahradník mean gardenerwe have also : wherever enter the army-

ten years no grass burgeoned

Is this gospel true ?

Bird directive

not very stricthigh level of knowledgefocus on birds onlyunderstedable for gener public

(who knows Trichomanes speciosum capillaceus moss, who nows white stork )

SPA and existing PLA + NP

Circus pygargus

SPA– Doupovské hory

List of bird species for Doupovské hory

Picus canusDryocopus martiusCiconia nigraBubo buboPernis apivorusCircus aeruginosusCrex crexCaprimulgus auropaeusSylvia nisoriaFicedula parvaLanius collurio

Habitat directive

Habitat mapping

Bombina bombina

What is inside MTR from the point of view od HD

•rare species

•rare habitats

•rare special living creatures (e.g. smart soldiers)

How the Natura 2000 could be beneficial for army

• PR for army and MoD

•donation from the state + EU

• better nature conservancy

• co-operation bridge with civil sector

Management principles in MTA

minimize site efect of machinery and gunsclear old environmental polutioncontinue the tradintional miltiary use (at

least partly)set measures for special species and/or

habitatslet´s have natural succesion

Thanks for atention