“THE CLEANER THE MEADOW, THE HEALTHIER THE GRASS THAT GROWS THERE, AND THE HEALTHIER THE LAND, TOO”: EXTENSIVE GRASSLAND MANAGEMENT IN ŐRSÉG<br>“ČISTEJŠI JE TRAVNIK, BOLJ ZDRAVA JE TRAVA, KI RASTE TAM, IN BOLJ ZDRAVA JE TUDI ZEMLJA”: EKSTENZIVNO UPRAVLJANJE TRAVIŠČ V ŐRSÉGU</br>

Abstract

The authors investigate forms of grassland management in the westernmost part of Hungary, in the cultural landscape of the Őrség region. On the basis of semi-structured interviews with knowledgeable elderly people in the region, they were able to reconstruct former land use from an ecological perspective and its role in developing and maintaining high biodiversity in grasslands, which are also valuable from the cultural and conservationist perspectives.

Challenges of Cross-Border Cooperation: The Initiative of Trilateral Goričko–Raab–Őrség Nature Park

“…Through new institutional and discursive practices, contested borders became a resource for economic and cultural exchange as well as for building political coalitions for regional development purposes (Scott 2016:90). In accordance with territorial cohesion, in attempts to build bridges "between economic effectiveness, social cohesion and ecological balance" (CEC 2008) voices were also raised for the protection of the habitats, which form an intrinsic component of the landscape (Tóth et al 2019;Peterlin -Simoneti 2013, 2015Vasilijević -Pezold 2011). In the scope of a Phare trilateral cross-border program between Hungary, Austria, and Slovenia in 1995 and 1996, and then a bilateral program between Slovenia and Hungary from the year 2000 onwards, one of the first projects to be funded was meant to support the creation of a trilateral regional park, Goričko-Raab-Őrség (project SI.00.08.01) (Bajuk Senčar 2019:216).…”

Asymmetric Wildlife in the Goričko Nature Park: Protecting (from) Species

“…Thus, with new technologies, grasslands have changed their role in farming and began to transform or disappear (cf. Tóth et al 2019). However, since these are habitats for many species of butterflies, the park began purchasing land where these grasslands were still preserved.…”

“…This paper, by contrast, pushes forward an inquiry about humans attributing character and/or values to animal species, which constitutes another field of possibilities for engagement with animals in modern-day anthropology (Descola 2013;Howell 1996;Kirksey 2015;Mathur 2015;Multispecies Editing Collective 2017;Podjed 2011;Viveiros De Castro 1998). Endeavors to analytically grasp nonhuman species -albeit less in terms of humanly attributed character (what nonhuman entities actually are), but concerned with the value of species in their own right -have proliferated conservation discourse (Cites 1973(Cites -2020Tiefenbacher 2012;Tóth et al 2019; cf. Kopnina 2016).…”

PROTECTED AREAS ON THE SLOVENIAN-HUNGARIAN BORDER: A PLACE AND SPACE OF NATURE AND CULTURE<br>ZAVAROVANA OBMOČJA OB SLOVENSKO-MADŽARSKI MEJI</br>

“…In addition, the research is based on an integrated approach to studies of protected areas that also encompass issues of political ecology and biodiversity, employing the concept of the Anthropocene to transcend the modernist opposition between nature and culture (Descola 2013;Ingold 2000;Babai et al 2019;Mészáros 2019). However, in their examination of borderlands as an Anthropocene phenomenon, researchers strive to develop a nuanced analysis of the role of human actors in the borderlands, according them the capacity to actively engage environmental and economic challenges while also identifying the actors (human and nonhuman) and factors that limit their agency.…”