Machland South European Protected Areas
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Machland South European Protected Areas
IUCN category - - |
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| location | Lower Austria ; Machland ( Alpine foothills / Danube valley ) |
| surface | 1,696 ha: 1,670 ha FFH area (GGB), 1,210 ha bird sanctuary (BSG) |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 11 ' N , 14 ° 4' E |
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| administration | Natura 2000 network / Province of Lower Austria |
Machland Süd are European protected areas established by the Lower Austrian provincial government on the southern bank of the Danube in the area of the municipalities of Wallsee-Sindelburg and Ardagger .
On the one hand it is a bird sanctuary and on the other hand a fauna-flora-habitat (FFH) area .
description
Machland Süd is located in the northwestern Mostviertel on the border with Upper Austria's Mühlviertel . The Grenerarm, an old arm of the Danube, flows through and divides the area. The relevant area is characterized by closed alluvial forests , fields and, to a lesser extent, meadows and orchards. Due to the relatively high proportion of near-natural habitats, a relatively large number of endangered animal species can be found.
The area allocated to the Machland Süd protected area is around 1700 hectares. Of this, around 1670 hectares are designated as FFH areas and around 1230 hectares as bird sanctuaries. The protected areas are located at an altitude of 210 m above sea level. A. up to 260 m above sea level A. and comprise closed alluvial forest areas and large, extensively managed wet meadows . Eight habitat types, twenty-one bird species and sixteen other species are protected .
Machland Süd is one of the most important breeding sites for meadow birds in Lower Austria and at the same time the last larger meadow breeding area in the Danube Valley. The area is also very important as a resting place for migratory birds , especially water birds . The islands and gravel banks are attractive resting places.
More than 57 square kilometers of low and Upper Austria Machland were due to its international importance for birds of BirdLife Austria for Important Bird Area declared (IBA).
Among other things, the curlew and the singing bluethroat have the largest distribution in Austria in the region.
The protected area is crossed by the Danube Cycle Path.
Large parts of the Machland in Lower Austria are no longer populated, as 60 farms in the floodplain of the Danube have been abandoned in the Ardagger municipal area, especially in the Stephanshart area, since the 1970s. The yards of the resettled residents were demolished.
Subject of protection of the Habitats Directive
The following habitat types and species must be protected:
- Habitat types
- Mud flats,
- Natural standing waters with floating bodies,
- Buttercup Societies,
- Moist tall herbaceous vegetation,
- Oat meadows,
- Ravine and hillside mixed forests,
- Alder-ash-willow meadows
- Oak-elm-ash floodplains
- species
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- Mammals
- Amphibians
- Yellow-bellied toad , mountain toad
- Danube crested newt
- Fish and lampreys
- Invertebrates
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- Beetle
- Butterflies
Subject matter of the Birds Directive
The following bird species and their habitats are protected:
- the breeding bird species listed in Annex I of the Birds Directive:
- White stork (Ciconia ciconia),
- Honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus),
- Marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus),
- Corn Corn (Crex crex),
- Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis),
- Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica),
- Red- backed shrike (Lanius collurio),
- the migrants and winter visitors listed in Appendix I of the Birds Directive:
- Night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax),
- Great egret (Egretta alba),
- Black stork (Ciconia nigra),
- Dwarf slayer (Mergus albellus),
- Black kite (Milvus migrans),
- Red kite (Milvus milvus),
- White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla),
- Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus),
- Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus),
- Crane (Grus grus),
- Golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria),
- Ruff (Philomachus pugnax),
- Wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola),
- Black Tern (Chlidonias niger),
- the migratory bird species that regularly occur in the area in question.
Conservation objectives of the regulation
The aim of the Ordinance of the Machland Süd bird sanctuary is to maintain or restore sufficient diversity and a sufficient area of the habitats of all species that are subject to protection, in particular:
- extensive (wet) meadows as flood plains,
- late mowed grassland as well as wet areas, tall herbaceous areas, ditches, flood troughs, groups of bushes, etc. as mowing refuges for meadow birds,
- tributaries flowed through with near-natural water dynamics and a functioning connection with the Danube,
- Richly structured forest stands with a near-natural or natural age composition and a characteristic abundance of structures and dead wood as well as phases of age and decay.
The achievement of a favorable state of preservation in the Machland Süd European protected area is guaranteed above all by contracts under private law.
literature
- Brochure European protected areas: Machland Süd. Lower Austrian provincial government (publisher), St. Pölten 2009 (PDF)
- Ordinance of the Lower Austrian provincial government on the European protected areas 5500 / 6-4
- Regulation on the notified sites of Community importance 5500 / 5–0
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview map of the protected areas of the bird sanctuary PDF, p. 78. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Overview map of bird sanctuary and FFH area (PDF) ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 6.
