- 19 jul
- 2022
VISIT TO HOHE TAUERN NATIONAL PARK - AUSTRIA
The Hohe Tauern National Park is one of the five largest nature reserves in Austria. In the past, it was an important gold mining area and in 1981 it was declared a National Park. The area includes a mountain region in the Central Eastern Alps of Austria, with land from the states of Salzburg, Tyrol and Karnten.
The people who have dedicated their time, work and expertise to this place over the years, the professionals in the management team, have managed to protect these areas, to preserve them in a special natural state, beyond all the changes that have occurred in the Alps, over the centuries ,through human interventions.
In their efforts to restore and preserve nature, they have repopulated the park with a species that is emblematic for Austrians: the Ibex goat. Alongside the wild animals living in the area and the diversity of flora, visitors to the park will encounter wild mountain rivers, spectacular waterfalls and wonderfully rich alpine meadows, with an abundance of Arnica Montana, the medicinal plant.
Because tourism is one of the area's important resources, the rangers are also professional guides, offering quality programmes through the hikes they lead and through activities in nature and at the visitor centres, for both adults and children.
The Hohe Tauern National Park is a protected area that can be a model for us here in Romania. Propark is dedicated to supporting the most effective management of protected areas. We are convinced that presenting examples, management models that have been working for many years, helps us to inform and show the needs of protected areas in our country.
With this mission in mind, we try to identify well-managed protected areas, so that we can offer examples to those who have experience. Hohe Tauern National Park is one such example that we will promote in our training programmes.Through future study tours to be organised, we want to inspire those who deal with and are directly interested in protected areas in Romania and the areas that should be kept as natural as possible in the Carpathian Mountains, whether they are national parks or not.