In this project, the extensive species monitoring in the Kalkalpen National Park will be extended to the stepping stone areas and networked with the monitoring systems of the neighboring protected areas - Dürrenstein-Lassingtal Wilderness Area and Gesäuse National Park.

In the spring of 2024, work on the KalkMon funding project began with two workshops held in collaboration with the Gesäuse National Park and the Dürrenstein-Lassingtal Wilderness Area. Four contracts were signed for the following survey projects, all of which promise interesting results. Furthermore, the monitoring of lynx, capercaillie, Ural owl, golden eagle, FFH butterflies, deadwood beetles, stone crayfish, rock ptarmigan, and amphibians from the WIBI VI species monitoring program was incorporated into this funding project.

KalkMon was submitted as a funding project to the Biodiversity Fund in 2023 and approved in November 2023. The concept envisaged joint Kalkalpen National Park between three federal states (Upper Austria, Styria, and Lower Austria) in three protected areas (Dürrenstein-Lassingtal Wilderness Area, Gesäuse National Park, and Kalkalpen National Park) under the leadership of Kalkalpen National Park , from which all three institutions would benefit both individually and collectively in the future.
The aim was to establish the basis for joint monitoring on three contractually agreed stepping stones between the three protected areas, to identify protected resources that had not yet been Kalkalpen National Park taken into account in the work of Kalkalpen National Park , and thus to lay the foundation for future monitoring of these resources, as well as to maintain the monitoring of protected resources already integrated into the work.