As part of the monitoring mission of the European Commission, held on 22- 23/06/2016, we visited two project localities in Bodíky cadastral area. The BROZ organization has rented forest land in this area as part of the project LIFE Danube floodplains (project action B1). Former forest land owners have done clear cutting of non –…
This activity consists of three main activities: a) removal of invasive species b) planting of native tree species and c) marking and preserving valuable trees and modification of logging. video.
In the Nature reservation Devínska Kobyla finished first phase of restoration of rare grasslands. The Works were coordinated by DAPHNE – Institute of Applied Ecology in cooperation with Administration of Protected Landscape Area Malé Karpaty. Felling self-seeded trees on NPR Devinska Kobyla it ended the first phase of restoration of rare bow. The work is…
First seedlings of native tree species for the Danube floodplain forests, prepared for the project purpose, are already growing in a field station of the National Forestry Centre (NLC) in Gabcikovo since the spring of 2016. Workers have started to plant seedlings of trees, native to the Danube floodplains for the first time this spring…
In Slovak daily paper, which is called Pravda, was published the article about the importance of wetlands. In the article were presented restorations of Danube river branches, which were realized within the projects of Regional Association for Nature Conservation and Sustainable development (BROZ). And in article was published the planned restoration of Karloveské rameno river…
From the spring 2015 new grazing locality within project NaturaBA has been prepared for restoration of biotops in surroundings – volunteers cleaned the area, collected litter and these days you can find around 20 animals grazing at protected meadows nearby.
In the past, the river transported massive amounts of gravel sediments which were deposited in the surrounding areas downstream from Devínska brána, eventually creating a network of meanders and river islands. One of these islands, locally known as Sedláčkov Island, can be found in this area. In contrast to other islands on the Danube, this…
Devínska rameno river branch starts about kilometer from the confluence of rivers Danube and Morava. It bathes Slovanský ostrov Island near castle Devín. Water bathes Island only sometimes, when the level of the Danube river is high. Most of time the water in Devínske rameno river branch is stagnant and bed is dry. Regional Association…
The motto of this year’s the World Day of wetlands lays stress on the important role, which wetlands play in our lives. The future of humanity depends on wetlands. The wetlands withholds and cleans water, offers fishes, rice and crops, which feed a milion of people of the world. Wetlands works like nature sponge, reduce…
On 19.-20.9. 2013, within the project Natura 2000 BA, we participated along with representatives of the SNC, Daphne, Bratislava Magistrate and the Regional Office for the Environment, in an interesting study visit in Austria, aimed at successful examples of pasture management in protected areas. We visited the sites Lobau, Bisamberg, Glaslauterriegel-Heferlberg-Fluxberg and Hundsheim.