Data Zone
Country/territory: Czechia
IBA criteria met: C6 (2002)
For more information about IBA criteria, please click here
Area: 9,052 hectares (90.52 km2)
| IBA conservation status | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of assessment (most recent) | State (condition) | Pressure (threat) | Response (action) |
| 2010 | good | not assessed | not assessed |
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Site description (2002 baseline)
Most of the area is covered by forests, predominantly spruce, with some enclaves of beech or primeval mixed fir-beech forests (for example in ofínský prales or in Hojná Voda). The treeless areas are mainly former settlements abandoned and destroyed after the displacement of German inhabitants in 1945. Thanks to the isolation and inaccessibility of the area in the border zone and also thanks to reasonable forestry management and non-intensive farming important habitats of rare and threatened bird species were not only well preserved, but also some new ones came into being.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Novohradské hory mountains (Czechia). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/novohradské-hory-mountains-iba-czechia on 23/12/2024.