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Site code
PLH 160001

English name:
Nyskie Forts

Niziny Srodkowopolskie

Forty Nyskie

Area description

Forty Nyskie is a Site of Community Importance with the area of 49.7 ha, located in opolskie voivodeship. The refuge is situated on the area of town park in Nysa city and it encompasses a part of 19th-century fortification. The refuge was set up to protect one of the most important places of bats hibernation in Silesia.

There are 5 species of bats on the area of Forty Nyskie valuable in the Eropean scale:

Barbastrelle,
Bechstein's bat,
Greater mouse-eared bat,
Geoffroy's bat,
Lesser horseshoe bat.

Galio-Carpinetum oak-hornbeam forests from Appendix I of Habitat Directive appear on the area of the refuge. There also three species of woodpeckers has been stated: middle spotted, black and grey-headed.

Cartography by
The UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre

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