National Park Management
National Park Managment:
A National Park’s motto is to ‘let nature remain nature’. Yet management implies active dealing with and intervening in natural processes. How can contradictory concepts fit together and why is it necessary?
History plays a significant part here because the area where the National Park is located has been used for centuries and is located entirely in the densely populated area known as ‘Central Europe’.
On the one hand, its surface area is valued for agriculture and forestry and millions of people use the area for recreation. On the other hand it is a top ranking nature reserve.
The National Park management strives to identify conflicts of usage and, if possible, to resolve or, at least, to ease them. This is possible only with sufficient research and documentation on the ecosystems’ cycles, as well as the distribution of plant and animal species throughout the nature confine – another important task for the National Park’s management and research. As a great preserve on European, national and regional levels, the National Park is bound by various nature protection laws and regulations. Their application is yet another of the National Park management’s tasks.
The National Park Plan serves as a guideline for future measures. It was created in 2001 and indicates the direction and measures to be taken over the next 10 years.
The Planning Department is responsible for the implementation of the National Park Plan, in cooperation with other departments according to the subject area.