M.Sc. Ivona Kneblová
Innovator
Poodří PLA
Czech Republic
Environmental
Rural Areas
Rural area close to city
The innovation journey
The Odra River Basin Protected Landscape Area is situated in the north-eastern part of the Moravian Gate. It carries out state administration in the field of nature and landscape protection, ensuring the care of valuable localities and monitoring rare species. The territory is part of the recreational hinterland of the Ostrava industrial agglomeration. It is a lowland territory in which the landscape has been developed partly for agricultural use. The key ingredient is water. This is the ornithologically most valuable area in Czechia.
Ivona Kneblová M.Sc. is the Head of the biodiversity monitoring department. She deals mainly with aquatic ecosystems. It is professional and administrative work while dealing with European subsidies. In the future, she wants to specialize mainly in zoo monitoring and create a new professional team.
The PLA is of European importance. The PLA area is classified as a Ramsar site, a bio-corridor of the European ecological network EECONET, in categories A4, B2 and B3 of important bird areas and is proposed for the NATURA 2000 network. The PLA administration participates in the publication of the Poodří quarterly.
The northern part of the territory, adjacent to the city of Ostrava, is visited by tens of thousands of people every year. Since 2014, educational and cycle trails with information boards have been purposefully built here.
The innovation impact
Nature conservation, especially in exposed areas, is very important. However, it is necessary to reconcile the interests of nature protection, tourists and entrepreneurs in the area. Otherwise, overtourism could occur, which could lead to the devastation of protected areas, including animal and plant species. Therefore, it is necessary to establish limits for the use of the territory and, on the other hand, compensation resulting from the limited possibility of use.