In 2025, municipalities with legally protected areas will receive financial support in the form of ecological needs. Discussions on supporting municipalities by way of ecological subsidies have been ongoing since 2010. Legislative proposals on support of this kind, from 2012–2013, remained at the proposal stage. Only in a proposal for the Bill on Revenues of Local Government Units (LGUs) from 2024 were such solutions introduced.
The main aim of this article is to systematise the information regarding support for municipalities with protected areas in the context of nature conservation in Poland. It presents information regarding ecological subsidy projects for municipalities in the years 2012–2013 and ecological needs from 2024. Approximately 90% of municipalities with protected areas are rural ones. Therefore, an analysis of ecological needs for 2025 was conducted for rural and urban-rural municipalities with protected areas. Since ecological needs represent new financial support for local government units, this article also describes long-standing support solutions for municipalities with protected areas, using France as an example.
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