Protect Czech park from development

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/531448d" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/531448d</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/531448d" target="_blank" >10.1038/531448d</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Protect Czech park from development

Original language description

The Czech Republic's parliament will vote this month on a bill that sets new rules for national parks. In eastern Europe's push for economic development, biodiversity is again under threat (see also P. Chylarecki and N. Selva Nature 530, 419, 2016, P. Michalak Nature 530, 419, 2016). Šumava National Park is a unique complex of peat bogs, wetlands and primeval forests in southern Bohemia. It is a refuge for many endangered species, including the remaining few viable populations in central Europe of capercaillies (Tetrao urogallus) and freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera). The bill, a reasonable compromise for conservation, is under attack from regional politicians. They object to the proposed transparency in setting and implementing conservation rules, and seek to restrict protected core zones to 23% of the national-park area. They also want to open up large areas for logging, tourism and privatization. Their arguments are similar to those used to justify logging in Białowieża Forest on the Poland–Belarus border (see Nature 530, 393, 2016). However, if Šumava's rare species are to survive, core zones need to cover about 50% of the park (I. Dickie et al. Eur. J. Environ. Sci. 4, 5–29, 2014).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nature

ISSN

0028-0836

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

531

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7595

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

1

Pages from-to

448-448

UT code for WoS article

000372701300023

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84961627499