Nature

Due to intensive human use, biodiversity is reduced in oak forests. The Life4Oak Forests project, supported by LIFE, aims to reverse this process with nature conservation forest management interventions. Here you can find a link presenting a Hungarian interview with … Read More

Invasive plants inhibit the development of the diverse flora and fauna typical of oak forests. For this reason, DINPD has started to suppress black locust, ailanthus, common hackberry and 15 other invasive and alien plants on a total of 30 … Read More

Birds, bats, round-dwelling invertebrates and saproxylophagous beetles were surveyed in 2019 before the nature conservation management. The management includes the creation of different microhabitats, standing and lying dead woods, gaps, leaks, etc. Thus, after the management we will be able … Read More

With the help of volunteers and students we carried out forest reconstruction work in the Fóti-Somlyó Nature Reserve on 8-9 November 2019. We applied different treatments In the mixed forest-grassland habitat to restore the former Pannonian woods with Quercus pubescens … Read More

On 16-17 October 2019 the project partners visited two Slovak primeval oak forests of which very few have remained in Europe by now. The visit was organized by the Ecological Research Center. One of forests is the Boky National Nature … Read More

We installed a variety of bird lairs to preserve and increase the bird life of Sas-hegy in one of our project sites (DINPD). It was necessary because Sas-hegy lacks the old trees that could provide living and nesting places for … Read More

Among the project areas of the BNPD, the chemical injection of black locusts to kill them has been completed in the case of Felsőtárkány-Miklósvölgy, Bükkzsérc, Buják and Cserépfalu. The impact of the work done is already spectacular in Cserépfalu. On … Read More

In the last week of September 2019 Serena Petroncini and Massimiliano Costa (MAR) were invited at the  6th International Symposium “Conservation of Natural and Landscape Heritage – premise of the sustainable development” at ICEM Cosiliul Judetean, Institutul de cercetari ECO-MUZEALE … Read More

Marking of different interventions in the BNPD’s project areas are ongoing. There have been some minor interruptions, such as running out of paint or shortage of personnel and of course the rainy weather. Of these factors, weather is the one … Read More

Presentations and field visits within the framework of LIFE4OakForests project The goal of the LIFE4OakForests project is to improve the naturalness of oak forests in poor ecological condition throughout Europe by developing conservation management methods to restore natural oak forests … Read More