Poloniny National park

Zuzana Gajdošová

2. D

2012/2013

Content:

Location National park Attractions Vegetation Animals Dark-Sky Park

Location

National park

created on 1 October 1997 protected area of 298 km² the highest point is the mount

Kremenec (1,208 m) – the

easternmost point of Slovakia open to the public all year

Attractions

The primeval beech forests were proclaimed to be a World Heritage Site UNESCO

Starina - the biggest water

reservoir for drinking water

in Slovakia wooden churches in Topoľa,

Uličské Krivé and Ruský Potok

Vegetation

a botanical frontier between

the East and West Carpathians about 1,200 species of vascular plant

forests cover about 80%

of the areapoloniny – meadows on the

main ridge of the

Bukovské vrchy

mountain range

Animals

about 5,981 species

of Invertebrates and 294 species of Vertebrates protected bird area many endemics and protected species:

salamander, newt, otter, wildcat, wolf,

brown bear, lynx,

European bison,

Eurasian elk

Dark-Sky Park Poloniny

1. dark-sky park in Slovakia

and 20. in the world created on 3 December 2010 the darkest sky in the Slovakia Astronomical Observatory near Kolonica

Sources: http://www.sopsr.sk/nppoloniny/sk/uvod.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poloniny_National_

Park http://poloniny.fussion.info/index.html http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_tmavej_obloh

y_Poloniny http://poloniny.svetelneznecistenie.sk/park-tm

avej-oblohy/narodny-park-poloniny/ http://svetelneznecistenie.sk/stars/

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