Project objectives
This project has as its objective the enhancement of respective care and utilisation of globally important biologic diversity in floriferous mountainous grasslands (meadows and pastures) in two protected areas in Carpathians mountains in the Czech Republic, and namely in Beskids and White Carpathians.
The project shall meet the goal mainly through demonstration, namely proposing targeted support from newly accessible funding opportunities of integrated rural development funding from EU (especially, through supplementary payments from CAP and grants of LIFE Nature programme), and wide publication of findings and best practice examples to be followed in the Czech protected areas and Carpathians generally.
The project determines priority locations for maintaining biologic diversity of floriferous mountainous grasslands in two protected areas and determines respective measures to be taken there in the area of care and agricultural utilisation.

Where suitable, the project shall support utilisation of land (grazing, mowing or their combination) by owners or users of plots of land with permanent mountainous grassland biotopes using new EC financial aid mechanisms (especially, through supplementary payments from CAP and grants of LIFE Nature programme).
That is why the project was designed in the way testing and verifying assumptions that the existing as well as future EU aid mechanisms, if correctly targeted, may balance the increased additional costs of owners or users of plots of land with permanent mountainous grassland of high biologic diversity. That should motivate owners or users of plots of land to be more involved in the plans produced by the protected area administrations.
The project shall bring the results allowing fine-tuning of EC financial aid mechanisms on national level and enhancing the possibility of their use in order to protect permanent mountainous grasslands.

Project outcomes:

• Mountainous grasslands
• Carpathians need a landlord
• Biodiversity
• Policy of cooperation and support