Hohe Tauern National Park: Salzburg farmers feel overwhelmed by nature conservation
The nature in the Hohe Tauern National Park is unique, but also that it largely belongs to farmers. They complain that this is being forgotten.
This year the 50th birthday of the so-called Heiligenblut Agreement was celebrated, in which the governors of Salzburg, Tyrol and Carinthia committed themselves to the establishment of the national park in 1971. The landowners in the national park are not cheering. “It was the biggest expropriation of the century”, Georg Altenberger, Amertalbauer in Mittersill and chairman of the protection association of landowners in the national park. “The gentlemen wanted to put the national park on the drawing board. There was an outcry among the landowners.” When the resistance of the communities also grew, it was late, but …
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