Mayor Gergely Karácsony and Deputy Mayor Kata Tüttő held a press conference on Earth Day on the Tétényi plateau. It was announced that approximately HUF 1.4 billion of EU funds will be used for nature conservation.
He spoke in one of the best-protected nature reserves in Budapest Gregory Christmas on Monday morning, that in recent years the Capital City Government has been continuously working on the backlog and debt of the previous city administration by protecting and developing the long-neglected Budapest nature conservation areas. As the mayor put it: 212 hectares of new nature conservation areas were created in various parts of the city, from Újpest to II. district and XXII. across the district to Óbuda.
“The condition of being a big city is to protect and expand those areas that have particularly important nature conservation values”
– emphasized Karácsony. He reminded: they did not only legislate for the protection of nature, but also strengthened the nature conservation guard service and a new nature conservation department within the MAIN GARDEN takes care of natural values, their protection, maintenance and development.
The mayor then announced that the Metropolitan Assembly will vote on the contract at Wednesday’s meeting, through which through a direct EU tender, HUF 1.4 billion can be used to preserve nature conservation areas.
“The Metropolitan Municipality has never spent so much money on nature conservation”
– emphasized the mayor, and then concluded by saying that Budapest was the first European city to win EU funding from the LIFE program fund.
“The Tétényi Plateau used to be a military area, so the objects that remain but do not belong there must be removed, the illegal waste dumping must be eliminated, further waste dumping must be prevented, the ecosystem must be restored, since more than 400 plant and 80 animal species must be protected,” he explained Kata Tüttőwhat kind of work the seven-year LIFE program will enable to be carried out in the nature conservation area in the following years.
(Featured photo: Kata Tüttő, Deputy Mayor of Budapest responsible for city operations and Gergely Karácsony, Mayor of Budapest on the Tétényi Plateau on April 22, 2024 – photo: Ruzsa Ránia/Fővárosi Önkormányzat)
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