István Fekete Memorial renewed in the Small-Balaton
As part of a HUF 1.2 billion project that also includes the construction of the Kis-Balaton Visitor Center, the István Fekete Memorial was renovated for HUF 22.5 million, the Ministry of Agriculture informed MTI in a press release on Tuesday. The announcement quotes András Rácz, the Secretary of State responsible for the environment at the Ministry of Agriculture, who reminded at the handover ceremony on Tuesday that Kis-Balaton has been protected at the national level since 1951, has been registered by the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance since 1979, and has been part of the European Community's nature conservation network since 2004. , a unit of outstanding importance for Natura 2000.
According to him, about half of the facilities registered in Hungary for ecotourism and environmental education are maintained by a national park.
The Balaton Upland National Park Administration (BfNP) operates four visitor centers, twenty nature trails, four caves used for tourism, a landscape house, seven other exhibition sites and two forest schools. The number of registered visitors has increased by 50 percent in the past 9 years, now approaching 450,000 per year, according to the announcement.
Zoltán Puskás, the director of the BfNP, reported that the memorial site was renovated inside and out, the covering and reeds of the roof were replaced, a new exhibition space was created, and the Matula hut of the memorial site was also renovated, the announcement states.
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