Bird

WHAT ARE RESOURCES?

  1. Resources are wealth or commodities satisfying human needs.
  2. Resources are manifested in the production and consumption of goods and services.
  3. There are only natural resources, everything comes from nature.
  4. Even human and infrastructural resources originate from nature.
  5. Resources are produced, maintained and sustained by nature and biodiversity.
  6. Biodiversity produces all the economy and life supporting ecosystem services.

RESOURCES FOR ECOTOURISM

  1. The resource for birdwatching and hide photography is biodiversity.
  2. Biodiversity generates and produces life supporting ecosystem services for everybody.
  3. Watching the wonder of biodiversity brings humans back to nature
  4. This is the greatest satisfaction of the modern man imprisoned in a world of artefacts

SAKERTOUR RESOURCES

  1. Our resource is a careful selection of natural habitats at the four birding destinations, easy to visit and explore.
  2. The intimate and ultimate local knowledge to show you all the Eastern European bird specialities is a practical result or by-product of our local research and restoration activities.
  3. Our academic abilities and project activities in research, conservation and restoration of biodiversity are our specific resources distinguishing Sakertour from many of the commercial agencies.
  4. Our research, conservation and restoration projects are implemented or run in cooperation with several institutions listed at links.
  5. Some of our completed or current research, conservation and restoration projects are listed below.

BIODIVERSITY RESTORATION PROJECTS

  1. Floodplain restoration. Natural river management: floodplain restoration and utilisation. Feasibility study on large-scale government projects to re-regulate the River Tisza by restoring extensive areas of living floodplains to receive the ever increasing flood water. The Floodplain Restoration Concept is an alternative to constructing dams or emergency reservoirs. (Project framework: VTT-1999-2002).
  2. Grassland restoration and management at the Hortobágy National Park for bird protection. A 4-year long EU-LIFE restoration project to improve degraded bird habitats in the Hortobágy National Park with increasing livestock grazing pressure combined with rural development while creating employment opportunities for locals. (Project number: LIFE 2002 NAT(H)8638: 2002-2006. Project area: nearly 2000 hectares.).
  3. Wetland restoration and management at Biharugra Fishponds for migratory bird protection. A 4-year long GEF project in cooperation with Birdlife International and Wetland International to develop a sustainable, multifunctional, nature-friendly fish-farming model (Project life cycle: 2007-2010)
  4. Sodic Lake habitat restoration and management at the Hortobágy National Park for bird protection. Within the habitat type Pannonic salt steppes and salt marshes (1530) sodic lakes and their catchment areas principally comprising lowland Pannonic loess steppic grasslands (6250) are the most vulnerable and at the same time the most seriously deteriorated habitats in the Carpathian Basin. This 4-year long EU-LIFE+ restoration project is about to restore a sodic lake in the Hortobágy National Park as well as to carry out a survey of the current status of all the sodic lakes in the Carpathian Basin. This would be the first initial step for a Basin-wide restoration programme for these sodic lakes in the future. (Project number: LIFE NAT07 (H)000324: 2009-2012. Project area: nearly 2000 hectares.). See details

BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH
Sakertour is a university based company that initiates, invests, carries out and co-ordinates field research on bird populations, zoology, habitat restoration, landscape ecology, rural development and ecotourism. See below a sample selection of over 500 scientific papers and 10 books published by the team.

  1. The birds of Hortobágy. Ecsedi Z. (ed.) 2004. The first comprehensive manual on the birds of the Hortobágy National Park, with the species monographs compiled by the best specialists and based upon historical as well as primary distribution data. Many of these species monographs and a substantial number of pictures have been produced by our guides.

  2. Ecoprogramme for restoration of degraded habitats on Hortobágy Natinal Park. Oláh J., Cs. Aradi, Z. Ecsedi, J. Oláh Jr., E. Sarosi, I. Sándor and G. Szilágyi 2001.FVM Publication p 144.

  3. Ecological management for wildlife protection on Kisköre reservoir, a Ramsar area of Hortobágy National Park. Oláh J., Cs. Aradi, I. Bancsi, Gy. Dévai and P. Végvári. 2001, FVM Publication p.162.

  4. Mineral cycling guilds of aquatic birds: transporters, accelerators and bioturbators. Oláh J. Jr. 2001. University of Debrecen. MsSc Thesis p.53.

  5. Population density and fish consumption of Cormorants in Hungarian fishponds. Olah J., Z. Ecsedi and J. Oláh Jr. 2002. Hungarian Waterfowl Publications.

  6. Resource multiplication in rural lanscape. Oláh J. 2002.Valoság 45(6):95-103. Visit: www.valosagonline.hu

  7. Natural river management: floodplain resources and utilisation. Oláh J. 2002. Hungarian Science 47(9):1219-1226.

  8. Resource management models. Oláh J. 2004.Valoság 47(2):1-15. www.valosagonline.hu

  9. The future of national parks. Oláh J. 2004.Valoság 47(8):14-29. www.valosagonline.hu

  10. Metabolic ecology. Oláh J. 2005.Valoság 48(1:1-25. www.valosagonline.hu

  11. The value of rural landscape. Oláh J. 2005.Valoság 48(12):35-53. www.valosagonline.hu

  12. Metabolic concept of resource management. Oláh J. 2006.Valoság 49(6):1-20 www.valosagonline.hu

  13. The state of social capital in Hungary. Oláh J. 2008. Valoság 51(2):15-29. www.valosagonline.hu

  14. Research on Trichoptera biodiversity. Sakertour supports field collection and taxonomic studies. Several monographs and revisions have been published in Zootaxa megajournal. Visit: www.mapress.com/zootaxa

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