Legal limitations and natural conditioning of agricultural activity in Nature 2000 sites in Warmia and Mazury region Cover Image

Ograniczenia prawne i uwarunkowania przyrodnicze działalności rolniczej na obszarach Natura 2000 w województwie warmińsko-mazurskim
Legal limitations and natural conditioning of agricultural activity in Nature 2000 sites in Warmia and Mazury region

Author(s): Elżbieta Zębek
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Environmental Geography, Applied Geography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: agriculture;Nature 2000 sites;legal regulations;plans of protective tasks;

Summary/Abstract: Nature 2000 sites are created in the aim of the conservation of rare and endangered plant and animal species (especially birds) and their habitats in UE. The protection of these areas depends on limitation of realization of projects that may significantly affect the environment related with intensive agricultural activity. In the range of agriculture-environment-climatical programme, the agriculture may be development in the agritourism area, and it also serves the protection of biodiversity by the protection of swamps and peatbog. In the Warmia and Mazury Region based on analysis of plans of protective tasks determined agricultural risks of the following natural habitats: meadow and grass – in appropriate management of meadows and grasslands, peatbogs – meliorations, old-river beds and water bodies – agricultural flows and breeding habitats of birds – agricultural intensification and chemicalization, drying boggy terrains and burning meadows. The protection of these habitats mainly depends on the suitable use of meadow and grassland management and the limitation of agricultural intensification and chemicalization.

  • Issue Year: 16/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 125-142
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish