TES projects

Recently Ostrava’s Territorial Ecostability Systems (TES) Development Plan was partially implemented on the basis of the Territorial Ecostability System set out in Ostrava’s Land Use and Zoning Plan; previously missing biocentres and biocorridors (which form the spatial basis of the TES) were added. The purpose of the TES is to protect natural plant and animal habitats. However, this does not mean simply conserving the current state, but rather supporting the natural development of the habitat. Especially in newly created biocentres/biocorridors, the emphasis is on enabling habitats to develop in line with the existing ecological conditions. Biocentres have been created in technically complex natural environments on slag-heaps and similar sites; even in these anthropogenically influenced environments it is essential to allow habitats to develop naturally.

Thanks to the large area of greenery per head of population, Ostrava ranks among the Czech Republic’s greenest cities. The City has implemented plantings on a huge scale (at a cost of tens of millions of EUR) in order to mitigate the impact of air pollution and increase ecostability. In just three years (2013–2015), a total of 120 000 trees and 330 000 shrubs/bushes were planted in Ostrava, at a cost of 87 million CZK.