Land Trust

Czech Union of Nature Conservation JARO

The Land Trust operated by the Czech Union of Nature Conservation JARO Jaroměř – see our main website HERE, takes care of biologically valuable natural sites and has been continuously taking care of some of these sites for over 30 years.

We gradually expanded our action radius from Jaroměř and Náchod surroundings to the entire territory of the Czech Republic, part of western Slovakia, southern Poland and Austria. Most of the sites in our care come under the Land Trust that is now the largest in the Czech Republic. In close cooperation with the owners of valuable natural areas we today take care about more than 250 sites that together make up the area of over 1500-2000 hectares. The effort to protect the most valuable areas within the motto “Get to know and Protect” is preceded by careful zoological and botanical surveys and by the following data processing that after evaluation additionally help to plan the best ways how to care for the sites and individual species of plants and animals. In this way we have already mapped thousands of sites in the central Europe (except for the Czech Republic and Slovakia – mainly Poland, Austria, Germany and Hungary) and southern Europe (mainly Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia and Montenegro) and we have gained tens of thousands of data about the extinction and causes of danger of animals and plants. That is why we are now more often involved in the rescue of the most endangered spices and habitats in the above mentioned European countries.

In the Czech Republic, JARO closely cooperates with newly established subsidiaries such as ČSOP Morava, ČSOP Arion, Pražská pastvina, ČSOP Pardubice, ČSOP Podještědí, and Pomáhám přírodě, which help mainly in the areas where JARO does not have enough power, time and finances.

We cooperate very closely with other organizations in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. We cooperate with both non-governmental organizations such as Česká Krajina, Centaurea, Česká společnost ornitologická, Společnost pro ochranu motýlů, Východočeská pobočka České společnosti entomologické, A Rocha, ČSOP Orlice, ČSOP Klenice , Pre Prírodu , and Protected Landscape areas (CHKO) such as CHKO Pálava, CHKO Kokořínsko, CHKO Český Kras, CHKO České sředohoří, CHKO Jeseníky, CHKO Biele Karpaty and many others including the centres of Nature and Landscape Conservation Agency and Environmental offices of many cities and regions.
We professionally rely on a wide range of experts from Entomological Institute in České Budějovice, Botanical Department of the National Museum, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague.

Currently, in close cooperation with landowners or users of the land, we take care of more than 200 naturally valuable sites located on an area of over 1500 ha.

We carry out annual monitoring of individual plant and animal populations at most locations. Our aim is to preserve our natural resources with appropriate care until someone is found (preferably as close to each location as possible) to take care of it instead of us. In eight localities, we have already achieved this goal. Valuable localities are again well maintained by their owners or tenants, municipalities, or various enthusiasts (eg from grammar schools) or private farmers. Other sites successfully handled to our „daughter“ organizations, whose establishment we have supported and supported materially and financially – especially ČSOP Morava in Brno, ČSOP Podještědí in Jablonec, ČSOP Arion in Olomouc, ČSOP Pardubice and Pražská pastvina – the first Prague community of herders.