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Section 5 Recommendations ■ The national IPA team should develop an action plan for the IPA network which prioritises sites most in need of protection and management, including a list of appropriate actions and tasks, and should aim to engage all the key stakeholders. ■ Management plans for IPAs should be developed, either to ensure that existing conservation management plans take account of features of IPAs or, to develop specific management plans for IPAs outside of protected areas. MART KÜLVIK Forestry practices threaten almost half of IPAs (51 IPAs – intensified forest management (IFM) 26 , afforestation 17 , deforestation 13). Recreation and tourist development threatens 44% of IPAs.Abandonment and reduction of land management is a high or significant threat at 41% of IPAs. In total, development (transport/infrastructure and urban) threatens 21% of IPAs; Burning of vegetation threatens 21%; and water management practices threaten 17%. ■ Monitoring the state of the IPA system should be carried out, particularly the threats to sites and the level of protection they are receiving.The system will include existing national biodiversity monitoring programmes, the Natura 2000 monitoring system, and monitoring of IPAs outside protected sites and outside of conventional monitoring programs. ■ Actions should be carried out to develop possibilities for funding actions to protect IPAs. Existing legal instruments and opportunities will be adapted to IPAs (e.g. agricultural land), others need to be elaborated (e.g. for forestry). Puhtu forest and coastal meadows Puhtu is a well preserved area of old growth, predominantly oak forest and Baltic coastal meadows.The site contains two priority European habitats, and has been assessed for species richness for its mesic grasslands and its coastal shingle habitats.The park and pasture were formerly owned by the local manor and its coastal meadows, reeds and juniper scrub are now only used a little. ■ Publicity campaigns which promote IPAs, good conservation practise at IPAs, and activities to engage people in plant conservation, should be targeted at politicians and the general public, and should involve landowners and local communities. MART KÜLVIK ■ IPAs support the Natura 2000 process and improve habitat protection. Ontika cliff forests (Saka-Ontika-Toila pangamets) This is an area of unusual, old growth, cliff forests, situated on a limestone bank fed by natural springs.The forest is dominated by lime, maple, ash, alder, and other deciduous species with a few examples of oak and spruce.There has been little human impact in the forest and the priority is to protect these valuable, species rich forests. 46
Poland Poland By Zbigniew Mirek Poland covers an area of over 312,000 km 2 in Central Europe and has two biogeographical zones: the Continental, which covers most of the country and a small area of the Alpine zone in the Carparthian Mountains of the south. Poland’s natural and semi-natural habitats consist mainly of several types of forest, mown or grazed grasslands, including small areas of warm, dry, steppe-like grassland, as well as vast areas of swamps and peat bogs.The country also harbours two Centres of Plant Diversity, the Carpathians and the Bial ⁄ owiez·a Forest. Poland joined the EU in May 2004 and is a member of the Council of Europe. IPA national team National coordinating organisation: The W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Kraków, Polish Academy of Sciences National coordinator: Zbigniew Mirek Other contributing organisations: (full details of national team members and contributing specialists are given in the acknowledgements) IPAs in Poland WOJCIECH PAUL IPA summary statistics Number of IPAs: 116 Area of IPAs (ha): 2,070,000 No/Area of IPAs in protected areas (all of part): 97 IPAs/2,046,500 ha Biogeographic zones: Continental (107),Alpine (9) Criteria lists Criterion A = 101 species Ai (15),Ai/Aii (10),Aii (70),Aiii (6),Aiv (0); Habitats Directive (47), Bern (47) Vascular plants (78), Bryophytes (23), Lichens (0), Fungi (0),Algae (0) [due to data deficiencies, fungi and algae data have not yet been included] Tatra Mountains IPAs The Tatras, located on the border of Poland and Slovakia and the highest arc in the Carpathians, are an exceptional area in central Europe for geological, climatic and biological diversity.They contain 28 habitat types and seven species of European importance, several endemic and sub-endemic species and plant associations, and are nationally important because they contain the only site in Poland for tens of plant and fungi species. Criterion B – Applied marginally in the current project, as additional criteria Criterion C=73habitats Ci (17), Cii (56); Habitats Directive (73) & Bern Convention (0) 47
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Page 3 and 4: Acknowledgements Academy of Science
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Page 11 and 12: Introduction MONICA SARBU DANKA PET
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Page 17 and 18: Methodology BRANO MOLNAR BRANO MOLN
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Page 21 and 22: Methodology IPA site selection crit
Page 23 and 24: IPA database The online IPA databas
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Page 33 and 34: Summary of IPA data Number of IPAs
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Page 51 and 52: Romania Romania By Anca Sârbu Roma
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