Tourist interest in illicit zone of ice caves

0490270 - ÚGN 2019 RIV CZ eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Nováková, Eva - Kuda, František - Kubalíková, Lucie
Tourist interest in illicit zone of ice caves.
Public recreation and landscape protection–with nature hand in hand! Brno: Mendel University Press, 2018 - (Fialová, J.), s. 408-413. ISBN 978-80-7509-550-3.
[Rekreace a ochrana přírody - s přírodou ruku v ruce! Křtiny (CZ), 02.05.2018-04.05.2018]
Institutional support: RVO:68145535
Keywords : Podyji National Park * restricted area * passages monitoring
OECD category: Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Ledové sluje (Ice Caves) in the Podyjí National Park represents one of the most spectacular sites within the area. It consists of the large boulder field and several pseudokarst caverns on the north-western slope of the ridge that are very important from the ecological and geomorphological point of view. The access to the site is restricted for the visitors of National Park as there exists a risk of damage and disturbance of these unique phenomena, tourist can use the marked paths leading around the site, they can reach the top part of the ridge. Currently, there are only several persons who have legal access to the site (employees of the National Park Administration and other researches with the permission issued by NP Administration). However, the installed sensor that counts the passages proved that the site is visited more frequently than it should be. The number of people who visit this site (situated within the first zone of National Park where there is no marked path and so the access is forbidden by decree) is quite alarming. Based on these findings, some proposals for the solution of this unfavourable situation are proposed and other possibilities how to avoid this undesirable phenomenon are discussed.

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