The Lower Odra Valley Park is to be built in 2026. What will the costs be?

The Park of the Lower Odra Valley is to be created on January 1, 2026, and the limit of the state budget expenditure in the first year of its activity is to amount to over PLN 19 million – according to the bill. Fishing, fishing and cultural fishing are to be allowed in designated areas of the park.

On Friday, on the pages of the Government Legislation Center, the draft law on the creation of the National Park of the Odra Valley and a draft regulation prepared by the creation of the National Park and a draft regulation, which is to determine the borders and buffer zones of the new park. Current provisions regarding the creation of new national parks require a separate act, and the determination of borders and buffer zone – regulation.

As indicated in the justification of the bill, the headquarters of the new park is to be in Gryfino. It is created for, among others preservation of biological diversity, resources, creations and ingredients of inanimate nature and landscape values ​​as well as restoring the proper state of resources and nature components.

The designed National Park of the Dolna Odra Valley is to cover an area of ​​3,000. 856.30 ha in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. This area is to be possible to conduct fishing, i.e. amateur fishing and fishing and cultural fishing, understood as fishing, e.g. a traditional way for a given region. Fishing is to be possible on the principles set out in the protection plan, protective tasks or in the ordinance of the Director of the National Park.

A provision will apply to fishing and cultural fisheries that in the National Park Protection Plan, and until its preparation – the protective tasks set places that may be made available, and the maximum number of people who can stay in these places simultaneously. The catalog of elements of the park protection plan is to be supplemented with an indication of areas and places made available for the purposes of fishing and cultural fishing.

All provisions of the Act on nature protection on national parks setting their tasks, including conducting protective activities, sharing the park area and conducting nature education, will apply to the new park.

The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage also assumes that the division of the state budget reserve is also to cover the municipalities, within which the planned park is created, which results from the fact that this provision applies to national parks extended and created in 2025, and the National Park of the Dolna Odra Valley will be created on January 1, 2026. The limit of state budget expenditure related to the designed park in 2026-2035 is PLN 167 million, of which in 2026 it is to be over PLN 19 million, in 2027 – PLN 16.6 million.

It was reported that the borders of the park were agreed with the City Council of Szczecin, the Council of the Widuchowa commune, Kołbaskowo, the Council of the Police, Gryfino poviats and the regional council of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

The boundaries of the new park are to be designated to ensure the protection of natural resources, and at the same time enable the use of the area to date. “Both arms of the Odra River: the West Odra and Eastern Odra will not be included in the park and its buffer zone. Three islands going beyond the main territory of Międzyodrza – the Kurowskie Island located between the West Oder and the Kurowski Canal, and the complex of two islands located between the eastern Oder and Kurowski channel: Klocki Ostrów and Klocki Kurku Klocki and Klocki, will be included in the area of ​​the planned park. Ostrówek.

The buffer zone – as explained – is to be a protective zone bordering on the designed park and be an area that protects it against “external threats resulting from human activities”. “The buffer zone will be mainly guided by plots that are inter -balance – a lane of the area from the river border to the base of the flood embankment, on the outside of the inter -district. If there was no separation of such a plot, i.e. the shaft together with the inter -vein was one plot, it is included in the designed park. The cover is not a coherent and continuous interior of the interior, but it is in many places. There is no place to the areas where any human activity is carried out – except Międzyodrza itself, “said the ministry in OSR.

According to earlier announcements of the Ministry of Climate and the Environment, the park was to be built later this year. At the end of May, councilors of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship agreed.

Deputy Minister of Climate Mikołaj Dorożała in February last year in an interview with PAP announced the creation of a new national park. He noticed then that it would be the first park in about 20 years, because the last, i.e. the “Ujście Warta” National Park was founded in 2001. However, in July 2024, the deputy minister reported that the assumptions of the Park's establishment would be prepared until the end of that year.

Pursuant to the provisions, the National Park in Poland is created by law, and by a regulation the Council of Ministers defines its borders. The creation or change of park borders requires the consent of the competent local government bodies.

There are currently 23 national parks in Poland, which occupy about 1 percent. country surface. The first park that was created in our country was the Pieniński National Park. The largest park is the Biebrza National Park. (PAP)

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