Between June 22 and July2 2015 Roztocze National Park had organized workshops under the title “Sharing selected protected areas (National Parks, Biosphere Reserves, geoparks) in the European Union countries”.
The trip was one of the design elements of the project under the title “Cognition and popularization of biodiversity of the Roztocze – borderland region of natural and cultural heritage" co-financed from the from the Financial Mechanism of European Economic Area and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2009-2014 implemented by the program area 2 for: "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services".
The workshops were attended by 30 persons from the national parks and institutions from Paland and Ukraine cooperating and supporting the Park in the activities of nature conservation.
The main purpose of the workshops was to show on the example of national parks in the European Union the biodiversity and to know the environmental protection systems.
During the workshops the group visited four national parks: Podyji National Park in the Czech Republic, the Tuscan Archipelago National Park, Vesuvio, Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park in Italy.
The workshops participants had presented various topics related to the specifics of the region or the places visited during the trip, for example: biodiversity, geology, climate conditions, volcanic phenomena, effects of karst and changes connected to the area that occurred in the area over the ages.
During the meetings with employees from visited parks, the group had the opportunity to get acquainted with functioning of the Parks, including educational and tourism activities as well as the problems related to the provision of protected areas and ways of ways of resolving them.
Apart from the natural and cultural values of the visited places the group had also the possibility to taste the regional products, the promotion of which is one of the elements pursued by national parks activity.
Worked by:
RPN/OEM
Text: Magdalena Kaproń
