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About
the Organisation
The Beretzk
Péter Conservation Club started working as a self-motivated group
in 1978. At the beginning we organised nature conservation study groups
and camps in summer for pupils. By our environmental education we got
in touch with other educational institutes working for the same goals,
with the Természet Búvár Periodical, with higher
educational institutes and domestic non-governmental organisations. Programs
for environmental education and nature conservation were worked out together
with organisations and research institutes. After that we grounded our
association and chose Beretzk Péter, the researcher of the Lake
Fehértó in Szeged, as the name of our organisation. Here
in the South part of the Great Hungarian Plain, a lot of voluntary environmentalist
help the work of our association.
The expert
activity of our NGO-members spreads over:
the information on inhabitants about environmental and nature conservation,
professional trainings, organizing fieldwork activities, nature-conserving
researches, representing and protecting these goals in the domestic and
international issues, searching the opportunities of ecoturism, developments,
organising forums for the people. Beside that we help the formation, realisation
of the environmental programs of the local government, and the finishing
of settlemet development plans.
Our challenges:
• All the members know that the biosphere is sensitive and the resources
are limited. Many people cooperate in the region to protect the biosphere,
to sruggle for the nature conservation and environmental issues.
• We search, teach, develop, research and offer the ways of sustainable
life style.
• In our programs the members cooperate with the members of the
govermental and economical sectors and the inhabitants.
• The environmental education has an important role between our
challenges beside the research of local natural values. We try to help
to reach the environmental protection of the values and we establish educational
paths along them.
• We call the people’s attention to the environmental problems
by researches, publications, communal activities, professional programs
and aimed lobbying activities
• The issues of our campaigns are in connection with reducing the
consequences of climatic changes by conscious actions, the importance
of preserving the biodiversity and the opportunities for them.
• We have international connections in these issues and we have
collective projects with associations (civil and governmental) from France,
Romania, Serbia.
Programs and
ecoturism
By the research
and determinization of the natural values in Röszke we connected
to the regional ecoturistic network.
The surveys managed
to reveal the natural and man-made values in Röszke and we worked
out our turistical program trying to show all of them. We have 5 paths
altogether, establishing the professional ecoturistical programs. Its
importance is much more significant, because these paths are connected
with other natural paths in Mórahalom, Ásotthalom, Domaszék,
Zákányszék and Üllés (the near settlements).
We organise programs along these paths:
Through the
fieldwork we try to force the self-supporting „knowledge-collecting”
by professional informative books, work-sheets, and the informative tables
on the field. All of our publications can be found and bought, and if
somebody want to read more about these topics, a free library is available.
(Röszke, Juhász Gyula street 1.)
By the ecoturistical
programs we make:
- we reveal the endangering factors of the habitats
- designating the ways connecting the stations
- popularise the ecoturistical netwoks by books and on the internet
- making informative tables at the stations
- sustainable management of the protected areas.
About natural
values and important problems in Röszke
Röszke
and its neighborhood is a typically agricultural landscape with some really
valuable locally and regional protected areas, planted forests, trees,
with one backwater of the Tisza, cultivated grounds and farms. The surface
of the settlement is almost plain, but small sand-hills and deflation
hollows from northwest to southeast are determining.
The outer area of Röszke is 3363 hectars. At present 53 hectars,
altogehter 7 protected areas can be found there.
The national protected Kancsal-lake, Kisszéksós-lake, and
the locally protected Molnár-field, Börcsök-field and
Kancsal-field in connection with the Kancsal-lake, the Kóka-field,
and the Madarász lake which is between the Natura2000 protected
areas are in such deflation hollows. After the regulation of River Tisza,
by cutting this part of the river, the Gyálai Holt-Tisza came to
birth. It is worth to mention, that in some deflation hollows limestone
layers can be seen on the surfice (about 20-60 cm deep). There was only
a few precipitation in the last years, and it disappears immediately due
to the channels made from the 1960s. The natural values of Röszke
were not examined in the last few decades. They did not notice these,
and we try to compensate this by researches. By the surveys of our organisation
this situation has significantly changed nowadays.
Vegetation
of the area:
The significant and valuable vegetation of the deflation hollows are the
MOnilia fens(Succiso – Molinietum:Iris spuria, Orchis laxiflora
ssp. Palustris, Iris pumila, Dianthus superbus, Carex flacca, Thalictrum
lucidum, Deschampsia caespitosa, Cirsium brachycephalum...
Bird species:
Ardea cinerea, Ardea purpurea, Remiz pendulinus, Coracias garrulus, Alcedo
atthis...
If you are interested
in our programs and our natural values, please do not hesitate and contact
us, and we can give you more informations even in English as well. |