"Living nature conservation"

Minister visits the country’s youngest nature park

Elisabeth Mendoza, Wolfgang Spitzmüller, Anja Haider-Wallner, Minister Leonore Gewessler, Marlene Hrabanek-Bunyai, Philip Juranich, Daniela Krammer, Hanna Walk.(Bild: Judt Reinhard)

Funded nature conservation areas and renaturation projects were the focus of Leonore Gewessler's visit to the Rosalia-Koglberg Nature Park.

 The youngest nature park in Burgenland, which comprises 13 municipalities in the district of Mattersburg, is also a valuable habitat for biodiversity with its wide variety of small-scale habitats such as vineyards, orchards, hedges, forest edges and wetlands, for example the rare scops owl. Gewessler was delighted to see that cultivation, nature conservation and biodiversity can go hand in hand.

The Minister emphasized that a total of 80 million euros is being provided by the Federal Biodiversity Fund for the conservation and establishment of such areas. The nature park is also an example, as Green Party leader Anja Haider-Waller emphasized, that it is very well possible to create something really good across party, community and ideological boundaries - for the people in the region and for nature. "Preserving, nurturing and promoting this biodiversity is a particular concern of ours," said Nature Park Managing Director Marlene Hrabanek-Bunyai.