The National Park’s Mission
- Ochrana a zlepšování jeho přirozeného prostředí
- Přísná ochrana volně žijících zvířat a rostlin
- Zachování jeho typického krajinného vzhledu
- Sledování vědeckých a vzdělávacích cílů
- Využití území NP pro ekologickou turistiku a rekreaci
Nature protection in targeted management areas aims to preserve the condition of locations significant for the biodiversity protection.
These locations depend on regular care. In contrast, natural processes are preferred in territories allowed to develop spontaneously where the ecosystem naturally changes and develops in accordance with natural patterns without significant human intervention.
The conservation of natural processes in the territory of the Šumava National Park is supported by allowing parts of the area to develop spontaneously (i.e. without human intervention).
The bulk of this territory lies in the area of alpine and water-affected spruce forests in the summit areas of the National Park. The conservation of natural processes is very important as all natural processes are closely interrelated and ensure natural function of the whole ecosystem, while each human intervention may lead to its degradation. National parks are among the few places where such processes are enabled and nature can take its own course.
Another procedural protection level is assistance in the start or regeneration of natural processes in nature that have been recently interrupted or stopped completely by human intervention.
In this case, there is an initial human impulse leading to the restoration of abiotic conditions and consequent leaving to natural processes.
This may be exemplified by the current regeneration of peat bogs and small water courses.
This is targeted protection and supporting measures tied to specific, rare species or group of species. They are implemented either by means of legislation where rare species are declared as specially protected, or the protection applies to their habitats, up to the elaboration and implementation of management measures to support their populations.
