The Kiskunság National Park Directorate has led a major project near Apaj in Pest County, on the Upper Kiskunság steppe, to erase the traces of unnatural water management and give the degraded ecosystem a chance to recover. Restoring such areas is essential to improve the conditions of protected and community-significant species and habitats, and to help preserve biodiversity. The intervention area is part of Hungary’s second-largest continuous alkaline steppe and wetland chain after the Hortobágy,...












