B. Papp szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 38. 2007 (Budapest, 2007)

Szollát, György, Seregélyes, Tibor, S. Csomós, Ágnes; Standovár, Tibor: The flora and vegetation of Gödi Láprét near Göd, Pest county, Hungary

the Ministry of Environment in 1989, declared that "the process of preservation is in good progress" while no further steps were taken. In 1990 Tibor Seregélyes and Agnes S. Csomós called for a national level protection of the area in a submission that was left unanswered. Again in 1990 and 1991 additional areas were ploughed. In January 1992 Pál Mödlinger advocated local protection that was approved by the council of the local government (decree no. 10/1992. (III. 25.)), which finally meant declaring 24 ha of land under local protection on 25th March 1992 (and 1st April 1992). Organised by the local Natural Sciences Foundation, Göd, with financial help from the Göncöl Foundation and the local government, the first detailed studies were carried out in 1992 (vegetation mapping, distribution of the protected species with the estimates of their population size, and assessment of the area's geomorphology and hydrology) (SEREGÉLYES 1992). The "Maintenance and development (action) plan for the Gödi Láprét" contained all prescribed administrative, treatment and development tasks that would have ensured the future of the area, but as these plans were never put into practice, the chances for preservation remained small. The proposal for national level protection was submitted by the Natural Sciences Foundation, Göd to the Budapest Office of the National Bureau of Environmental and Nature Protection. In May 1995 the local level protection was extended to include the ploughed areas, which resulted in an enlarged protected land of 53.5 ha. The positive development meant that the whole area was treated as one unit with no part allowed to be privatised. In June 1996 the status of the area accessioned as No. 2052 next to the railway line was changed by the town to permit housing development. (In the years 1996 and 1997 the local government produced two different development plans for the township including the area No. 2052 without asking any permission neither from the Nature Conservation Directory, Budapest, predecessor of the Duna-Ipoly National Park, nor the National Park Directory). 1997 saw the establishment of the Duna-Ipoly National Park with the Gödi Láprét left out. Based on the new act on nature protection which came into force in January 1997 (1996. LIII. Law 23. § 2.) the fen was protected "ex lege" on national level thus falling into the competence of the Directorate of the Duna-Ipoly National Park. About 70 ha of land including the Gödi Láprét was acquired in 1997 by an investor to establish a golf course. The transaction was, seemingly,