Green Belt Austria

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The Green Belt Austria is a chain of nature reserves along the former Iron Curtain in Austria and on the Austrian- Slovenian border and extends over almost 1,300 km from Upper Austria , Lower Austria , Burgenland and Styria to Carinthia . In addition to the cross-border national parks Thayatal and National Park Neusiedler See-Seewinkel, this includes numerous other nature parks and nature reserves along the state border. However, in the section between the three-country corners Austria - Slovenia - Hungary and Austria - Slovenia - Italy, unlike the other sections of the Austrian Green Belt, these do not owe their existence to a kilometer-wide exclusion zone on the Slovenian side of the border.

The Austrian Nature Conservation Union is dedicated to protecting nature on the border with the Czech Republic , Slovakia and Hungary , which has been untouched for decades by the exclusion zone on the Iron Curtain , and acts as the National Focal Point of the European Green Belt for Austria. It is part of the INTERREG program “Green Belt - Protection and valorization of the longest habitat system in Europe”, launched in 2006, in which eight countries are participating. The Naturschutzbund is also responsible for ensuring that the biotope network between the Baltic Sea and the Adriatic Sea on the Austrian-Slovenian border (as on Austria's borders in the north and east) has as few gaps as possible.

See also

literature

  • Johannes Gepp, Alexander Schneider: On Austria's Green Belt. From the iron curtain to a natural gem. Leykam , Graz 2012, ISBN 978-3-7011-7803-2 .
  • Hans Peter Jeschke: The linear cultural landscape zone “European Green Belt and Iron Curtain”. Notes on the structure and conception as natural and cultural heritage of outstanding importance. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Linz 2019, pp. 16–33, PDF on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Green Belt Austria Nature Conservation Union Austria, accessed on January 31, 2017
  2. ^ Federal Environment Agency : The green ribbon connects Europe ; accessed on January 31, 2017