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Nature and Landscape Management

Nature Conservation 3/2009 30. 6. 2009 Nature and Landscape Management Print article in pdf

Protected Landscape Area Management Plans

author: Aleš Hoffmann

Protected Landscape Area Management Plans

Protected Landscape Area (PLA) Management Plans are a basic conceptual document in nature conservation and landscape protection in the Czech Republic.

They set up nature conservation and landscape protection targets and goals within the individual PLA’s area, refle­cting further PLA’s development as well as the PLA Administration’s priorities. The document called PLA Analyses is a background for drafting the PLA Management Plan: it describes and analyses PLA’s natural conditions and human activities influencing the state of nature and the landscape in the PLA. For reducing and buffering anthropogenic impacts on the protected subjects or their unfavourable status identified in the PLA Analyses, appropriate measures should be defined in the particular chapter of the Management Plan, fo­cusing on improving the state. The Management Plan is binding neither for legal entities nor natural persons and it includes duties for the PLA Administration. On the other hand, activities resulting for the PLA Administration from Act No. 114/1992 Gazette on the Protection of Nature and the Landscape, as amended later, as its duties, as well as duties of other authorities or owners are not proposed in the plan. The PLA Management Plans are negotiated with municipal and regional authorities/administrations and with the public. Consequently, they are approved by the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic (MoE), usually being in force for ten years. The PLA Management Plans are available on the MoE’s web pages as well as at the respective PLA Administration and its web pages.