Author Archives: Tóth Máté

Grassland management last year and abundant rainfail this spring have brought the expected results. We have observed the first pair of Kentish Plovers in the core project area that had been managed by cattle and sheep-grazing last year. We hope that they start nesting and breed successfully to contribute to the re-establishment of this threatened species in the project area.

We have completed surveys of arthropod species and communities in the project area. We will use the results to compare the current arthropod community with the community found in a similar survey 31 years ago. We also conducted the first surveys of the population of Dorcadion fulvum cervae, a beetle subspecies endemic to Hungary, which have provided us with more information on the distribution and activity of this threatened subspecies. Next year, we will also install artificial habitats (wood piles, manure piles, insect hotels) to increase the number of arthropods in the area.