Untere Lobau
- Country:Austria
- Site number:273
- Area:915 ha
- Designation date:16-12-1982
- Coordinates:48°10'N 16°30'E
- Transboundary Site:
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Overview
Untere Lobau. 16/12/82; Wien; 915 ha; 48°10'N 016°30'E. Biosphere Reserve; Nature Reserve, Protected Landscape Area. A complex of former alluvial floodplain habitats, riverine forest, meadows, oxbow lakes, sand and gravel ridges and reedbeds. The site supports a diverse flora and fauna, including the recently reintroduced European beaver and many orchids. Human activities include small-scale fishing, timber production and recreation. Flood embankments erected in the nineteenth century are now used as a groundwater protection area for Vienna's domestic supply. Ramsar site no. 273. Most recent RIS information: 2006.
Transboundary designation:
Untere Lobau Ramsar Site is part of the "Trilateral Ramsar Site Floodplains of the Morava-Dyje-Danube Confluence" established in June 2004, along with Donau-March-Thaya-Auen Ramsar Site (No. 272) in Austria, Mokrady dolního Podyjí Ramsar Site (No. 635) in Czech Republic and Moravské luhy Ramsar Site (No. 604) in Slovakia.
Administrative region:
Wien
- Global international designation:
- UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
- National legal designation:
- national park
- nature protection area
- Last publication date:01-01-2006