Experts of Slovak project partners the State Nature Conservancy (represented by experts from protected areas Záhorie and Small Carpathians) and the Ekopolis Foundation met in the middle of the Pilot region 2 in Western Slovakia. The purpose of the meeting was to coordinate mapping of migration barriers. Common methodology was agreed to map various fences, walls, communications and similar barriers and to assess their throughput and impact on migration. Barriers identified in field are fed in into a GIS map layer which will be one of base data for identification of existing and possible corridors connecting the Morava River green belt and the Small Carpathians Hills.

Participants visited also the ecoduct over the D2 motorway built 2 years ago.

Pine forest in the Pilot region 2 in Záhorie lowland in Slovakia
 

Cold chilling weather of the field meeting. 
 

The D2 Motorway from Brno (CZ) to Bratislava (SK) is a substantial barrier of migration. Heavy traffic, concrete barrier and fences ... 


Beaver dam not very far from a motorway