Pohorje Regional Park

Development institutions cooperate with the manager, the Slovenian Institute for Nature Conservation, in all planned management tasks, with an emphasis on:

• Prepare a Protected Area Management Plan.
• Raising public awareness about nature protection and the protected area and ensuring that the visit is conducted in a manner that is appropriate from the perspective of nature protection and visitors.
• Establishing and maintaining infrastructure for visiting protected areas, developing information centers and observatories.
• Exercising direct control in nature.
• Ensuring the visibility of the protected area.
• Tasks for integrating the protected area into the tourist offer and promoting nature-friendly tourism.
• Developing protected area brands for products, crops and products from the protected area.
• Cooperation with local communities and other stakeholders of the protected area.
• Finding financial sources, preparing project applications.
• Providing a supportive environment for the implementation of protective, management and supervisory tasks.
• Cooperation with nature conservation, professional and scientific institutes and institutions, local associations and initiatives.

Who is the project intended for:

• local communities,
• ministries and government departments,
• carriers of the tourism economy,
• tourists,
• local population.

Project benefits:

• Active management of the wider protected area of the Pohorje Regional Park.
• A regional park with an awareness-raising, communication and connecting role.