These provide an overview of the key topics that Czech nature conservation authorities focused on over the past year.

This edition includes the following articles:

Decaying Wood – A World of Wilderness
Fifty Years of the spa Landscape
The Krušné hory/Ore Mountains Protected Landscape Area
Dolní Kralovice Serpentinites – Restoring a Botanical Gem
Landscape Policy of the Czech Republic
Ecologically Significant Elements (Landscape Elements) as Part of the Ecological Network
Czechoslovak Army Large-scale Mine/ CSA Quarry: the Ever Biggest Ecological Restoration Project in the Czech Republic
Importance of Spatiotemporal Continuity of Forest Habitats for Forest Biodiversity
The Pitfalls in Protecting, Conserving and Managing the Highest Parts of the Czech Republic
Project Mapping and Species Inventories (Monitoring 2) Has Been Completed
How has the landscape of our protected areas changed over the past 70 years?
The European Larch More Native than Previously Thought. How to manage
it in Specially Protected Areas?
The Hodonínská Dúbrava/Hodonín Oak Grove House of Nature
Nairobi National Park – Nature versus Transport Infrastructure

This is already the fifth English-language special edition with a selection of the most interesting articles from the previous year. All articles are available on the Nature Conservation Journal website.

We wish you an enjoyable reading.

About the journal

The Nature Conservation Journal was established in 1946. The journal deals with nature conservation and landscape protection in a broader context. It targets State Nature Conservancy staff, academia, researchers, teachers, non-governmental organisation members as well as anybody who is interested in nature.

The journal presents articles and news on landscape protection and management, protected area networks, wild species protection and management and nature conservation legislation issues. The periodical also shows outputs of monitoring nature and of research on it and it provides reader with information on implementation of multilateral environmental agreements and on the EU Natura 2000 network, on international nature conservation respectively. Since 2015, in addition to standard volume, it includes an insert to each issue, allowing to present short news, book reviews and remarkable nature conservationist profiles.

Since 2007, the journal has been issued six times in a year, always in the middle of each even-numbered month.

The journal is issued by the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic which has been continuing the efforts of its predecessors, now in co-operation with the Cave Administration of The Czech Republic. In 2015, both the publishers were joined by administrations of all national parks in the Czech Republic.