Protected areas
The area of Rožnik, Šišenski hrib and Koseški boršt is of major relevance from the aspects of valuable natural features protection, landscape characteristics and biodiversity maintenance. It complexly binds various natural segments into a whole, constituting a mosaic-like intertwining of several well preserved ecosystems, the component parts of which are rare and endangered plant and animal species.
Three quarters of the area under consideration are covered by forests. In terms of tree species, beech prevails, followed by spruce and noble deciduous trees. Natural forest associations are prevalent particularly on the eastern slopes below Tivolski vrh, Drenikov vrh and Rožnik, whereas other forested areas have suffered a major change owing to planned afforestation with spruce in the past, in places with Douglas fir and even eastern white pine. A lesser part of the Landscape Park is also overgrown by regularly maintained grasslands, which stretch from Koseški bajer on the western edge of the area towards the south along the Trail of Remembrance and Comradeship right to the Biology Centre.
Tivoli, Rožnik and Šišenski hrib Landscape Park was established with the purpose to preserve the area's numerous valuable natural features, great biodiversity, landscape diversity and natural processes.
Inner protected areas within the Landscape Park:
The aims of protection, which are implemented through conservation, financing and primarily management of the Park, are the following:
- preservation or improvement of the condition of valuable natural features, ecosystems and natural processes,
- preservation of favourable conservation status of threatened and protected wild animal and plant species and their habitats, forest habitat types, grasslands, marshes and fresh waters, as well as improvement of their unfavourable status,
- preservation of cultural landscape with the characteristic arrangement of landscape structures,
- preservation or enlargement of green areas and those particular structures that enable the citizens and vistors a pleasant stay and spending spare time in nature,
- providing oriented visits for recreational, sports, cultural, tourist, educational and scientific purposes and for learning about nature and its experiencing,
- providing for sustainable development of the existing activities, preventing additional burdening of the environment, and promoting sustainable use of natural resources.
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- Oddelek za varstvo okolja. Mestna občina Ljubljana. 2018: Začasne upravljalske smernice za upravljanje Krajinskega parka Tivoli, Rožnik in Šišenski hrib.
