A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Naturalia 5. (Szeged, 2009)

Summary

The tourism of this small region has started to develop promisingly. The programs organised in Mórahalom enjoy international attention - this can be a good example for other settlements. During the past decade all the villages in the area joined the tourist industry - maybe not in such a spectacular way but on the basis of developing the landscape with care. Tilling of arable land Today's owners consider caring about nature as a harmful utopy which was made up by the green people only to annoy them. Although in this region a considerable part of farms are purely used for tourism, the production for the market didn't disappear. In 1994 there was a suggestion only about protecting nature preserves without any buffer zones, because there weren't any ploughfields at all, only small cornfields could be seen, producing sweetcorn for the wild animals. Today there are more and more cultivated areas here as well. A question rises: Why do people produce sweetcorn at the expense of the fast perishing nature, when the size of fallow fields hardly decreased during the last decade? Lawn farming In the majority of the areas which are suggested for protection (9 areas) lawn farming is dominant, the fields are grazed or cut down. These methods of agriculture either alternate or complement each other which shows the rebirth of old farming. Looking at the conformities and the differences, one can see there are more differences than conformities. Lawn farming today is a strictly profiteering activity. Reed growing Cutting reed in small quantities mainly by the dwellers is frequent both along the lakes of Kelebia and on Lake Madarász. Regular and intense reed growing is carried out only on Lake Nagyszéksós near Mórahalom. Hunting and fishing There are some limits of hunting and fishing due to the ownership of lands. Everybody should seek for professional, coordinated solutions if both conservationalist and land owners are eager to improve something - everybody can profit from their activities.