Great deal of the project activities is focused on raising of public awareness in the crayfish protection. Within this activity a thematic calendar and a leaflet were produced and information boards were placed.
In spring 2024, four permanent information boards were created and placed in the field.
At the Cetviny border crossing on the Horní Malše SCI, a permanent information board was installed warning of the occurrence and risks caused by the spread of non-native signal crayfish.
Permanent information boards with text about barriers and the risk of the spread of non-native crayfish species were placed at both modified steps on the Zákolanský stream.
The fourth permanent information board was installed in Stromovka park in Prague. The board's message, titled “There is no crayfish like crayfish”, is to highlight the difference between native and non-native crayfish in our waters. The City of Prague participated in its installation.
Information board - signal crayfish: pdf document (8.3 MB, Czech)
Information board - barriers: pdf document (6.6 MB, Czech)
Information board - Stromovka: pdf document (7.0 MB, Czech)
The leaflet contains basic information about our native crayfish and their protection, as well as information about invasive crayfish species, the dangers associated with their spread and ways to control them. The leaflet also includes a simple map of the occurrence of invasive crayfish.
Leaflet: pdf document (16.8 MB, Czech)
One of the project activities focused on crayfish protection promoting was the creation and distribution of the thematic calendar. Calendar for the year 2023 was printed in an edition of 2,000 copies (1,800 in Czech and 200 in English) and the prints were distributed during the educational activities to the interested participants from the expert as well as the general public.
Calendar: pdf document (4.5 MB)
During the project period following articles in professional journals were published focused on crayfish protection in the Czech Republic.
Published: Number 19/2024 of the Prestižní student - Gymnázium Arabská magazine, p. 17-18
Author: Mgr. Vojta Macháček
Full text: pdf document (13.8 MB, Czech)
Published: Number 4/2023 of the RACEK - Magazín státního podniku Povodí Vltavy, in an edited version, the article was also published on the websites of the Zákolany and Svrkyně municipalities.
Authors: Mgr. Jiří Vait, RNDr. Jitka Svobodová, Mgr. Pavel Kožený
Full text: pdf document (1.1 MB, Czech)
Published: In: Pyšek, P. a kol. (ed.) První neformální setkání k invazím v ČR. Botanický ústav AVČR. Průhonice, p. 33., 2023
Authors: Jitka Svobodová, Pavel Kožený, Vojtěch Macháček, Jiří Picek
Full text: pdf document (229 kB, Czech)
Published: Web pages of municipalities in the immediate vicinity of Kačležský pond (Kačlehy, Člunek, Kunžak), 2023
Authors: Jitka Svobodová
Full text: pdf document (430 kB, Czech)
Article on web pages of Kačlehy municipality: pdf document (219 kB, Czech)
Article on web page of Kunžak municipality: pdf document (202 kB, Czech)
Article on web page of Člunek municipality: pdf document (214 kB, Czech)
Published: Web pages of municipalities in the immediate vicinity of Zákolanský stream (Svrkyně, Zákolany), 2023
Authors: Jiří Vait, Jitka Svobodová, Pavel Kožený
Full text: pdf document (301 kB, Czech)
Article on web page of Svrkyně municipality: pdf document (246 kB, Czech)
Article on web page of Zákolany municipality: pdf document (407 kB, Czech)
Published: Number 4/2023 of the VTEI journal
Authors: Jitka Svobodová, Vojtěch Macháček, Pavel Kožený, Jiří Picek
Full text: pdf document (444 kB)
Article on VTEI journal pages: external link (online)
Another activity within the project solution focused on the area of education is the realization of lectures on the issue of crayfish protection. The following lectures have already been held.
4.4.2024, České Budějovice and 11.4.2024, Prague (Czech Republic)
A key event at the end of the project was the meeting with the professional public and state administration workers at the project seminars organized in České Budějovice (4 April) and in Prague (11 April). At the seminars, the researchers’ experience with the implemented measures was described and the results of accompanying studies were presented. A representative of the partner institution NINA from Norway took part in the seminar in Prague. The presentation of the project results was supplemented by lectures from other institutions on related topics. Altogether, approximately one hundred participants attended the seminars. Attendance lists, programme, and presentations from both events can be found in the attachments.
“Our vs. invasive crayfish in the Czech Republic” leaflets were distributed at all events for public. As part of the work at the project sites, information boards were placed and renewed about the significance of the implemented measures.
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19 April 2023, Aveiro (Portugal)
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27 March 2023, Zákolany (Czech Republic)
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12 September 2022 - 16 September 2022, Tartu (Estonia))
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17 May 2022 - 18 May 2022, Prague (Czech Republic)
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