"Wilderness and biodiversity"

Three smaller projects were developed from the extensive "Wilderness and Biodiversity" funding projects to date:

"WIBI VI - Environmental Monitoring" with a term from July 2023 to December 2024, which co-finances the management of environmental parameters, such as environmental monitoring at Zöbelboden.

"WIBI VI - Species Monitoring" with a term from August 2023 to December 2024, with the topics lynx, capercaillie, golden eagle, FFH butterflies, burnt area, deadwood beetle, stone crayfish, FFH amphibians and, to a lesser extent, public relations work and data entry into the National Park's own BioOffice database.

"WIBI VI - Management Monitoring", with the same duration as "WIBI VI - Species Monitoring", primarily co-finances the areas of forest management and the evaluation of the natural area inventory.

Since 2022, funding projects have been processed via a new digital platform (DFP). However, the fact that the platform did not function smoothly until the end of 2024 resulted in a situation where funding projects were applied for but not yet approved by the end of the project term.

"KalkMon" - Biodiversity Fund

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.

Work on the KalkMon funding project began in spring 2024 with two workshops together with the Gesäuse National Park and the Dürrenstein-Lassingtal wilderness area. Four work contracts were concluded for survey projects (wasps, dragonflies/locusts, fungi and FFH mosses), all of which promise interesting results.

In addition, the monitoring of lynx, capercaillie, Ural owl, golden eagle, FFH butterflies, deadwood beetles, stone crayfish, rock ptarmigan and amphibians from WIBI VI species monitoring were transferred to this funding project.