Please let us
to shortly present our activity to You!
The
Group was founded in Nógrád county, mainly by young teachers
and students, in 1996.Primary
aims are the exposure and the promotion of the protection of the natural
values in the Cserhátalja, which is our tighter working area.
This activity is continued by participation of the students and undergraduates,
and the resoults are published in different publications and reported
on presentations. In the membership there are 47 persons right now.
Floristical
and zoological surveyings were done in the Cserhátalja, at the
beginning, but lately the focus is on the western part of the Mátra
and the Eastern-Cserhát. Non-protected but very important habitats
can be found in both places. The surveying of the insect- and vertebrate
fauna has been started and the initial resoults are very encouraging.
Several endangered plant communities, numerous protected plant- and
animal species can be found here. We cooperate with the experts of the
Bükki National Park, so the collected datas are handed over to
them. During the surveying of the natural areas, in 1998 that meant
important information for the ranging of the places. The researchers
of the Mátra Museum of Gyöngyös helped us with the
entomological surveying, where the collected insects could be placed.
Undergraduates of the University of Debrecen, EFE Sopron, DATE Szarvas,
and high school students took part of the surveyings.
The
supporters of the research programs were the Central Environment Protection
Fund, "h" Fund and the Independent Ecological Center. We have
an eminent partnership with the Életfa Environment protection
Association and the Nimfea Nature conservation Association. A wet-meadow
owned by the Nimfea Nature Conservation Association is looked after
and treated by us.
We
generally took part of the competition of the Ministry of Environment
Protection, called "Surveying of the natural values of the non-protected
areas", where we have two first and a advantaged first position.