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National Parks in Hungary in peril

Massive setback for nature conservation, as the Hungarian government accepted a bill on April, 28th 2015, which virtually abolishes the 10 National Parks in Hungary. More detailed, the management rights of over 300,000 hectare of protected areas will be taken away from the National Parks’ management responsibility and passed on to the National Land Management Fund Organization (NFA). One of the affected areas is the Duna-Drava National Park, which is central part of the Croatian-Hungarian TBR MDD.
Given this development, the National Park system in Hungary, which has been established over the last 40 years and successfully managed Hungarian natural and cultural heritage is now seriously jeopardised. Biodiversity conservation is now at risk to take a backseat, while commercial will potentially be made a priority.

WWF, together with a number of other environmental organisations are calling for immediate action to reverse this EU wide unprecedented decision and to ensure Hungary’s important role in European nature conservation.