HUMANITA - Human-Nature Interactions and Impacts of Tourist Activities on Protected Areas

Test and produce innovative solutions to assess the impact of tourist activities on nature.

Assist managers of protected areas to optimize them with nature protection.

Involve tourists and local communities in participatory monitoring to bring awareness-raising, trust-building, and behavioural change.

Enhance the protection of natural heritage, ecosystems, and valuable areas.

Develop ‘common heritage’ narrative for pilot sites.

5 Pilot actions testing new innovative monitoring methods

1 Transnational monitoring strategy

6 Solutions assessing the impact value of different types of tourist activities on nature

5 Local action plans to monitor and resolve human-nature conflicts in pilot sites

HuMa-24_monitoring_strategy_final.pdf

More information about the project:

“HUMANITA - Human-Nature Interactions and Impacts of Tourist Activities on Protected Areas”

NEWSLETTERS

With this newsletter, we will start a series of newsletters with the purpose of presenting our longstandingwork and effort in addressing the human-nature interactions and impacts of tourist activities on protected areas. Our goal is to show you what we have been doing in this regard until now, and what we expect toachieve in the future.

Newsletter

Working visit from our partners participating in the HUMANITA project

Last week we hosted a working visit involving our partners from the University of Parma, Italy, and the University of Žilina, Slovakia, with whom we undertake activities to improve the conservation and management of protected areas in Central Europe within the HUMANITA (“Human-Nature Interactions and Impacts of Tourist Activities on Protected Areas”) project. Our partners shot interesting aerial videos of our protected dry grassland in Donji Kamenjak (Lower Kamenjak) using a drone equipped with a high-quality camera, and another with a laser. These were basic, reference shoots and we plan to perform at least two more during the project implementation, in order to monitor the condition of our protected grassland areas as well as the impact on their condition and fragmentation made by visitor activities in Donji Kamenjak. Dry grassland covers most of Donji Kamenjak and is included in the Natura 2000 network. The grassland is also extremely important because it provides habitat to myriads of plant and animal species and is the prime habitat for orchids, which are especially numerous in Kamenjak, numbering as many as 30 different species.

The HUMANITA project will be carried out in association with 10 other partners from five Central European countries over the next three years. The project is supported by Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE 2021-2027, a programme that supports transnational cooperation, and is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.

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From 17th to 19th October 2023 we participated in the meeting of project partners as part of the activities of the HUMANITA project that took place in Žilina, Slovakia. The meeting was hosted by the University of Žilina, the leading partner in the project. The highlight of this meeting was a visit to the beautiful Chleb pilot area within the Malá Fatra National Park. Representatives of the National park introduced us to the challenges they face, such as soil erosion and the creation of "wild trails", and the impact of soil erosion on the trails.

The goal of the HUMANITA project is to preserve and protect the sensitive ecosystems of protected areas and contribute to reducing the negative impacts of tourist activities on protected areas.
The HUMANITA project will be carried out in association with 10 other partners from five Central European countries over the next three years. The project is supported by Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE 2021-2027, a programme that supports transnational cooperation, and is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.

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