The Drava River by Dénes Lóczy

Author:Dénes Lóczy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319928166
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

13.3 Conservation and Sustainable Use

13.3.1 Conservation Status

Due to land use of moderate intensity, position on the national border for fifty years and partly to the National Park status for 20 years, both aquatic and riparian oxbow vegetations of the Drava are relatively well-preserved. Around 2000, eight of ten large oxbows were qualified in the 2nd, two in the 3rd naturalness class on a five-class scale (Ortmann-Ajkai et al. 2003). Since Hungary’s accession to the European Union in 2004, habitats and sites of European Community importance (Natura 2000—EC 2007) are the priorities of nature conservation. Three special areas of conservation (SACs; below: Natura 2000 sites) are designated since 2010 in the Drava floodplain, which include oxbows: East Drava, Forest of Ormánság, and Wetlands and meadows of Ormánság (http://​natura2000.​eea.​europa.​eu). Oxbows are especially rich in Natura 2000 habitats. Dystrophic communities are protected by law in Hungary, but without buffer zones legal protection did not exclude most of the threats, e.g. nutrient overload, desiccation and game damage. The best-known and highlighted site is the Cún-Szaporca oxbow, which is protected since 1969, designated as Ramsar area in 1979, and part of the National Park since 1996 (see Chap. 12). Nevertheless, no special conservational measures were taken till the 2010s. In 2016, a water replenishment project was implemented and a visitors’ centre was also built (Lóczy et al. 2017 and Chap. 20).

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