The state conservationists agree to the separation of part of Slovakia without interference
At present, according to the area of non-intervention locations of the OP, about 1.8 percent of the total area of the Slovak Republic. It is very low in terms of biodiversity protection. “We are aware that we will fulfill a truly sufficient value of the acreage of such areas in the long run in Slovakia, it is not possible to implement,” Karaska noted. According to him, the increase of non-intervention areas to ten percent of the territory is necessary. As has happened, only a small part of the forest would be affected by the increase in intervention. the end would still be managed. Older forests permanently left in a non-intervention regime should form part of the forest stands.
The National Forestry Center (NLC) in Zvolen claims that 10.1 percent of the area of Slovak forests is in the regime of planned intervention for the next ten years. Some are in the strictest, fifth level of protection, the other is left to self-development according to current forest management programs. According to the NLC, the so-called white areas created by self-development and their exclusion from agricultural land management. After their inclusion, the area of forests in the non-intervention regime would expand by 23 percent of the area of our forests, which should represent 9.9 percent of the territory of the Slovak Republic, the center added.
Recently, a petition from the Wolf Forest Protection Group came to parliament, proposing areas with strict protection (non-intervention areas) and areas with active protection (managed areas). The area of strictly protected areas required a petition for at least ten percent of the area of the Slovak Republic by 2030. Activists also asked cyclists to move pedestrians in all protected areas. However, MEPs rejected the petition.