Main goal (Strategy – Slovenia)

·         To maintain a favourable status of habitat types.

Goals by habitat type

Coastal and marine habitat types:

·         to reduce water pollution to a level that is non-biologically threatening to exceptionally diverse or well preserved habitat types and habitats of threatened or endemic species;

·         to restore degraded habitat types to favourable status, wherever possible;

·         to prevent the introduction of non-indigenous species.

Inland waters, bogs, mires and fens:

·         to conserve the favourable status of existing ecologically important wetlands and habitat and to restore the ecological integrity of degraded inland waters, bogs and fens, and marshes, where feasible;

·         to use an integrated approach to water management;

·         To raise water quality, mostly by reducing water pollution to a level not biologically threatening towards exceptionally diverse or well preserved habitat types and habitats of threatened or endemic species;

·         to prevent the introduction of non-indigenous species;

·         to encourage land use practices that maintain the water cycle and are important for the conservation of biodiversity;

·         to adjust land use to natural water regimes.

Habitat types in the agricultural landscape:

·         to maintain the current extent of wet and dry grasslands, meadow orchards and hedges.

Forest habitat types:

·         to maintain the favourable status of forest habitat types and to expand areas that have favourable status.

Subterranean habitat types:

·         to maintain their favourable status and the favourable status of all subterranean fauna.

Goals (Strategy – EU)

To halt the deterioration of all habitats covered by EU nature protection legislation and to achieve significant and measurable improvement to their status so that by 2020, 100% more habitat assessments conducted in accordance with the Habitats Directive will have reach favourable conservation status or show improvement compared to the present assessments. (Strategy – EU)