Corridors

Corridor or a biocorridor is a relatively preserved, a wide enough natural passage between parts of the population area, through which a certain species of wildlife can cross an unfavourable environment.

Ensuring habitat connectivity is important for many species of wildlife, as this enables their long-term conservation. Spatial connectivity ensures not only an improved genetic flow between individual populations, but also the preservation of the ecological functions of the living communities of individual habitat patches and edge habitats. The biggest threats are the creation of barriers that prevent migration (fences along the roads, construction of the area ...). The protection of corridors is of international and national importance, especially in the case of migration corridors, which directly connect larger patches of habitat within and outside the borders of the Republic of Slovenia. The preservation of ecological connectivity is one of the important requirements of several strategic documents, both at the European level (the EU Biodiversity Strategy until 2030) and at the Slovenian level (the Resolution on the Spatial Development Strategy 2050 and the Resolution on the National Forest Program).

In accordance with the regional forest management plans, migration corridors have the first level of importance of the function of biodiversity conservation with the main limitation of banning deforestation. Restrictions on the land use in the area of ​​the corridors are also defined in the long-term game management plans outside the forest area, primarily as construction restrictions.