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ACTIVE MEASURES OF PRESERVING HABITAT TYPES ON THE ISLAND OF LOKRUM: WASTE REMOVAL EXAMPLE

The Island of Lokrum, a special reserve of forest vegetation since 1948, is also an area of the Natura 2000 ecological network – Site of Community importance (SCI), a total of eight habitat types including the sea belt. The area of the Island of Lokrum is an integral part of the Historical Whole of the City of Dubrovnik and its immediate surroundings, which has been listed on UNESCO World Heritage List. In the past, waste was collected on certain locations on the island which was against the regulations that have become effective since then and it was not in accordance with basic activities undertaken by nature protection institutions – protection and preservation of the protected area. Some intensive activities took place in 2015 for the purpose of solving inherited waste management issues pertaining to removal of construction materials containing asbestos from roofs as well as management of such waste. Other activities included prevention of waste burning on the coast, as well as cleaning and removing waste from the so-called landfill in a forest above the Dead Sea. Waste disposal locations from that time were in the area of ecological network habitat types - Vegetated sea cliffs of the Mediterranean coasts with endemic Limonium spp. and Mediterranean pine forests with endemic Mesogean pines that encompass three habitat types – Limonietum Anfracti, Aleppo pine forest with juniper, forest with both Aleppo pine and holm oak. The analysis of the species and amounts of collected and handled waste pursuant to legal regulations has brought forth a conclusion that the largest percentage of the waste at the so-called landfill consisted of harmless wooden tree stumps, boards and slats that could be considered pressure, but also possible value in terms of biodiversity, especially as habitats of certain insect species. It has also been noted that there was a habitat renewal and a start of vegetation succession on micro localities that had been burdened by waste. With the goal of unobstructed progress of natural processes, Public Institution “Special Reserve of forest vegetation Island Lokrum” is undertaking measures to direct visitors to use the marked pathways which is the only acceptable and legally defined way to spend time in areas which are protected in the special reserve of forest vegetation category.

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