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Background Poor water management, succession processes and changes in landscape and land use are having a long-term negative impact on bird habitats in many Natura 2000 network sites in Slovakia. The main threats are unsuitable water regimes, insufficient water management and infilling of wetlands, and the inappropriate management of grassland and reed st ...

Background Slovakia’s Medzibodrožie SPA contains the country’s largest wetland biotype territory comprising channels, marshes, alluvial lowland landscapes and floodplains. The area is favoured by protected species such as bittern (Botaurus stellaris) which use the SPA as a breeding ground. Up to 30 pairs are estimated to reside in Medzibodrožie but ...