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Nature Conservation 1/2011 — 8. 4. 2011 — Nature Conservation Legislation — Print article in pdf
On Updating the Specially Protected Species List
Commissioned by the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic has proposed a new Specially Protected Species list for amending the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic Decree No. 395/1992 Gazette which listed species, in the Czech Republic specially protected pursuant to Act No. 114/1992 Gazette on the Protection of Nature and the Landscape, as amended later.
The original list had been developed in 1992 and consequently it was amended only once, namely because of the transposition of the species listed in Annex IV to Directive No. 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora, commonly known as the Habitats Directive, to the national legislation. When developing the new list, it was necessary to take into account risk of extinction and rarity of the individual species and habitats to which they are related, direct threats possessed by human activities as well as the need for special conservation management. Including into the Czech Republics Red Lists of threatened species was a basic criterion. For vertebrates, tends in their numbers in the Czech Republic was also taken into account. When drafting a list of specially protected invertebrates, due to high species richness within the group, other criterion was their determinability. At the same time, umbrella species (species with large area requirements for which protection of the species offers protection to other species including less known and less conspicuous that share the same habitat) were also preferred among them. In vascular plants, habitats where they occur were to a greater also extent considered. Among fungi, only macromycetes (larger fungi, macrofungi) were included into the proposed Specially Protected Species list as well as macrolichens. As a rule, all the species listed in Annex IV to the Habitats Directive and in Annexes I and II to the Bern Convention were included among the Specially Protected Species in the Czech Republic. The current decree includes 849 taxa, while the proposed one more than 1,500 items. A rapid increase in the listed species occurred in all the groups except vertebrates, while lichens and mosses are newly listed there.