Restoration of priority grassland habitats in Slovakia and Romania

The Pannonian basin grassland habitats cover more than 200 000 km2 in Slovakia and Romania, and include a wide variety of different habitats such as inland salt meadows, salt steppes, salt marshes, dry grasslands and scrubland. As traditional farming methods are abandoned in favour of more intensive agriculture, many of these habitats have become degraded, resulting in a loss of biodiversity and the expansion of invasive alien species (IAS). These problems are compounded by a lack of scientific data, weak restoration policies and a significant increase in tourist numbers.

Conservation efforts to date have been largely limited to enlarging previously restored habitats and replanting native seed varieties, but local seed mixtures are not generally available.

ohrožené a zranitelné druhy (EN – Endangered / VU – Vulnerable)