Agriculture in the atec region and its influence on environment in the conditions of EU

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Agriculture in the atec region and its influence
on environmentin the conditions of EU
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Protection biodiversity in terms of agricultural
intensity facts and plans
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Map of the Czech republic and the atec region
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Climatic conditions in the atec region

• annual average temperature 9C
• annual total rainfall 400 to 445 mm
• moderate winter ephemeral snow cover

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First farmers settlement

• Moderate climatic conditions in the atec region
  was to be cause early first farmers settlement.
• Primary neolithic farmers settlement dates back
  to 7.500 to 6.200 years.
• Already perhaps seven thousands years agriculture
  changes landscape appearance of the atec region,
  hop is growing 700 years.
• Agriculture has been influencing landscape of the
  atec region essentially up to now.

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Current data agriculture

• Agricultural production is
• oriented to
• Cereals
• Corn
• Oilseeds
• Hop
• Farm animal breeding

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Influences on single environment components and
their restraint
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• Farmers entered to the EU with markedly better
• surface water economy and ensured water cleanness
  protection,
• waste disposal and chemical fixturing management,

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• emission decrease and better atmosphere
  protection,
• improved care about wildlife and animals,
• than was starting position after political
• authoritarianism change in the Czech republic

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in conditions of non varying agricultural
intensification.
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Intensive agriculture and its characteristics

• Large farmland area is cultivated with high
  technologies.
• Erosion and soil contamination is growing.
• Keeping explicit negative influence over water,
  atmosphere and nature.
• Hazard diseases and pests increase.
• Traditional procedure recede (pasture, meadows
  mowing, orchard management, beekeeping etc.)
  extensive farming disappears.

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Nature and landscape conservation main target
farmers participation on the environment
protection

• After the Czech republic accession to the
  European union habitats protection and
  agriculture vs. nature and landscape problem
  solving became preferred interest.

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Diagram land utilization in the atec region
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Diagram protected areas
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BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY PROTECTION OF AGRICULTURAL
LANDSCAPE

• The most valuable component units of atec
  nature were created or well-kept by human
  (farmer) work. Our first-rate duty is to conserve
  it in the best possible and high-quality form for
  future generations.

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Territorial system of ecological steadiness (EEC)
basic document for landscape creation and
protection

• is the basic official document to landscape
  ecological steadiness reservation.
• has a high priority in Czech legislature.
• Projects are supported as amended with the law
  about nature and landscape protection from 2004,
  including law specification unified in EU
  countries.
• In the atec region there are collection of
  documents process in wide agreement between
• offices and farmers.
• European principles of nature protect are
  included to documents since 2000.

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Protected areas natural monument

• In the atec region there are
• established seven natural
• monuments, thereof
• 4 provide vegetations protection on areas of
  former extensive grasslands and orchards,
• 1 is a forest,
• 2 preserves palaeontology locality,
• total surface does 67,2 hectares.
• Their custody is ensured by
• Regional authority Ústí nad
• Labem.

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Protected areas protected locality

• In the atec region there are
• established twenty-three
• protected localities (significant
• landscape elements)
• thereof 17 are established in unattended
  agricultural area localities,
• their area is almost 360 hectares.
• Their custody is ensured by
• Municipality authority of the
• atec.

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Protected areas system Natura 2000

• In the atec region there are preserved a range
  of non-forest habitats in representative form,
• which are fixed on vegetation region atecké
• Poohrí, especially
• Narrow-leaved dry grassland
• Broad-leaved dry grassland
• Festuca sand grassland
• Halophilous reed and sedge beds
• Inland salt marshes

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Sites of Community InterestRIVER OHRE
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Map of rare vegetation localities in the atec
region
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Factual care of nature

• Problem of the atec region landscape is ingrowth
  with shrubs, undesirable vegetation and
  penetration with invasive and exotic species
  plants and animals.
• Rare and protected plants population occuring on
  unattended agricultural land require care
  supplying extensive management.

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Knowledge, cooperation, understanding

• As well, to be the care of
• nature and landscape the
• most effectual, it is
• necessary to pass special
• knowledge to public and
• farmers in acceptable form.
• It is necessary to create
• a cooperation between
• offices, conservationists,
• soil proprietors and farmers.

In the atec region I have been farming since
1970. I always thought that is necessary seting
tress and forest on hillsides. It is not long
ago I have been given inside into required care
and I am going to participate in it. Miroslav
Naxera, private farmer
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compensation of farming,

• Traditional pasture and meadows mowing is
  substituted by hand mowing or light mechanization
  skiving without product usage (forage).
• Activity is designed to upheld development of all
  live components in habitat. It embodies high
  expertness elements.
• Compensatory farming is not profitable and needs
  support from public financial resources.

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money,

• In the year 2006 in the atec region it is funded
  to the
• protective gear nature and landscape from these
• resources
• Department of the Environment
• 222.054 CZK (7.930 EUR)
• Ústí nad Labem Region
• 495.000 CZK (17.678 EUR)
• Municipality of atec
• 255.000 CZK (9.107 EUR)

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make-up big projects.

• In present Municipality of atec prepares
• nature and landscape protection projects
• of regional range, namely
• Collection of documents
• Strategy of nature and landscape common
  protection.
• Action plan of biological diversity protection.
• Projects
• Revitalization of Liboc stream valley.
• Farming renewal on halophilous pastures in
  Chomutovka stream valley.

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Landtrusts

• Landtrusts are project of Czech Union for Nature
  Conservation. These are NGOs, supporting
  compensatory management in locations, that are
  most valuable nature parts in given areas.
• Landtrusts activity is based on property affinity
  to piece of land in given range.
• In the atec region there is acting Landtrust
  Milý, which manages pieces of land in Holedec
  and Necemice. Landtrust Milý arose in the year
  1999 as one of the first in the Czech republic.
• Further in atec region there is acting
  Landtrust Hasina solicitous about steppe sides
  and alluvial meadows in Hasina stream valley near
  Lipenec.

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Protectionist activity Landtrust Milý

• Photos originate from protected locality
  Necemická
• lada established on piece of land unattended
  cattle
• pastures. Compensatory management effects, shots
  before
• and after.

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Rare flora in the atec region
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Invitation

• We would like to invite
• all colleagues and friends
• to the excursion in atec nature.

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Thank you for your attention

• authors
• Petr Janda
• RNDr. Vlastistav Vlaciha
• and
• Municipality of atec
• www.mesto-zatec.cz