poloniny national park
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Poloniny National park. Zuzana Gajdo šová 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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Poloniny National park
Zuzana Gajdošová2. D2012/2013
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 area
poloniny – 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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