rd measures working for nature? – a good example gábor figeczky wwf hungary nature conservation...

RD measures working for nature? – a good example

Gábor Figeczky

WWF Hungary

Nature Conservation and the EU policy

for sustainable land management

in the new EU Member States Bonn, 18 June 2007

Budget distribution among axes

Public expenditure

46%

32%

13%

5% 4%

Axis 1Axis 2Axis 3Axis 4TA

Budget distribution among axes

Total cost

59%21%

14%

4% 2%

Axis 1Axis 2Axis 3Axis 4TA

• huge concentration

• resources to be spent easily: e.g. on machinery

• low degree of integration

• hidden schemes even within AE to support large farms,

disadvantaged sectors (wine)

• badly designed LFA measure

• old fashioned extension service system

• training not focusing on environment

General findings

Budget distribution among different forestry measures in

Axis II

57,4%

9,6%

2,4%

10,1%

19,9%

0,2%0,4%

afforestation onag land

agro-forestry

afforestation onnon-ag land

Natura 2000

restoring forstrypotential

non-prod.investm.

forest-environment

• 41% of forests are in private ownership

• 9% of Hungarian land is private forests

• 71% of this is managed

• average size: 2.2 ha

• low profitability

• management methods according to short term interests

• multifunctional services needed

Forest-environment

• Repression of aggressively expanding non-indigenous tree and shrub species

against black locust, the red ash, the Manitoba maple, the Russian olive, the tree of heaven, the black cherry, the western hackberry and Amorpha fruticosa

several year long continuous manual work

Period of support: 5 years

Forest environment measure

• Structural conversion of forest stands with a degraded structure, but with indigenous species


• Maintenance based on manual work ensuring the regeneration of the natural forests

stand complementation in order to create indigenous forest stands corresponding with the habitatgoal: by 7th year: min 70% forest cover accoriding to habitat



• Conservation of forest coverage in order to avoid erosion and protect wetland habitats

to encourage farmers to change for silvicultural methods that ensure the continuous forest cover in the long-term


• Conservation of forests with public welfare function

maintenance of a good quality condition of the environmentensuring the continuous coveragePeriod of support: 7 years


• Reduction of clear cutting of indigenous forest stands

method applied for forest regeneration purposes

used instead of artificial forest regeneration

special focus on indigenous forests in the Great Plain



• Extension of indigenous forest areas by supporting succession processes

After the intensive agricultural production fell back, a mixture of tree species of pioneer and climax forest groups begins to emerge forests regenerating in this way enjoy a greater genetic variety, better adaptability, they ensure the natural processes of soil development



• Creation and maintenance of forest clearings

unique habitats, often historical significancetask: to restrict and minimize the encroachment of bushes, trees, non-indigenous plants


• Selection forest management

selection cutting to be tailored to the site conditions best way to achieve sustainable forest management both in ecological and economic terms



• Conservation of forestry genetic resources in a forestry collection of genes (ex situ), and forest stock in the form of trees

• to conserve the genetic diversity• to conserv the ability to adapt,• to conserv the micro-evolutionary capacity for a long time



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