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Description
The project restores and improves the status of one alluvial located in southwestern Slovakia. Wetland restoration will include water regime improvement (hydrological regime modifications, sediment removal, and litter remediation) and management of degraded wetland biotopes (mapping and remediation of invasive species). Microclimate of area of concern, living conditions of protected species, living quality of inhabitants of surrounding municipalities will improve and recreational potential of the site will increase. Water management-environmental study and landscape-ecological study/analysis elaborated by Project Promoter in cooperation with Project Partners will present important data background for further sustainable restoration measures. New educational trail will increase public awareness on degraded wetland ecosystem restoration in terms of climate change.
The basic target group of project is environment itself in terms of expected wetland improvement and mitigation of negative impacts of climate change. Further target groups are children and pupils of primary and secondary schools in surrounding municipalities. Project aims to educate them on the importance of the local wetland in terms of climate change and change their behaviour in terms “to feel responsible for” and be active in wetland preservation and management. Youth organization will take care of restored wetland. Students of universities and teachers will benefit too, due to valuable data reached and management practises analysed. State Nature Conservancy of the Slovak Republic as policy-related authority (public organisation) will benefit from project materials in further wetland preservation and management.
Summary of project results
The Project aimed to address following challenges in the field of climate change adaptation and mitigation:
- environmental data gathering for designing appropriate restoration measures and assure sustainability of wetland management in future,
- enhance of ability of one degraded alluvial wetland to adapt to climate change by water regime improvement and management of biotopes of alluvial forests,
- engagement of general public, mainly children and students in Project activities to increase the awareness on wetland significance and educate them how it can be preserved.
Following Project activities were implemented within the Project:
- analysis of actual status of wetland within context of climate change,
- water management-environmental study,
- landscape-ecologic study of potentially suitable measures
- implementation of restoration measures including changes of morphology of water course by transport of sediments and building of an island and the gravel bed, litter collection and management of native plant species,
- installation of educational trail with information boards on restored wetland.
Overall, one wetland ecosystem was restored on the area of 76,365m2.
The Project improved environmental status of one alluvial wetland in southwestern part of Slovakia. More than 15,000 local people benefit from ecosystems improvement measures. A series of information and promotion activities were addressed to general public, mainly children from local communities.