Kurgans as landscape elements protected by the European Community

Rákóczi, Attila (2013) Kurgans as landscape elements protected by the European Community. ECOTERRA: JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PROTECTION, 10. (34). pp. 7-12. ISSN 1584-7071

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Abstract

Our research aims at overviewing the present and the past of kurgans, which are our national values, furthemore it also aims at throwing light on their future under the new agricultural system of the EU in connection with cross-compliance. We will present both the historical background of the formation of Cumanian mounds, and their relationship with human society in the past centuries. They were of administrative, religious and burial importance in the early centuries. From botanical aspect they are valuable as landscape elements at present because of the specific way they were formed. Unfortunately, the different agricultural activities resulted in their continuous deterioration and their number also decreased over the past centuries. There were remarkable changes in agricultural regulation concerning Cumanian mounds in the EU – and in Hungary too – in 2010. They were declared protected landscape elements therefore they became part of cross-compliance. In our research we will check the results of the new regulation in relation to the changes in the state of Cumanian mounds in Békés County. Although our research has been carried out for a short time, the positive effects of the new regulation can be seen from nature conservation point of view.

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