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Niziny Srodkowopolskie
Kantor Stary
Area description
Kantor Stary is a Site of Community Importance with the area of 95.4 ha, which borders are covered with the one of wood reserve. The refuge is located on the area of mazowiecki voivodeship.

There are well-preserved Galio-Carpinetum oak-hornbeam forests and Riparian mixed forest of Quercus robur, Ulmus laevis and Ulmus minor, Fraxinus excelsior or Fraxinus angustifolia along the great rivers (Ulmenion minoris) on the area of the refuge and also monumental trees appear here. These oak-hornbeam forests - habitats from Appendix I of Habitat Directive - were dominating wood gatherings in the European lowlands in historical times, before the agriculture was initiated by human.

Existing forms of nature protectection:

  • Kantor Stary nature reserve,
  • Siedlecko - Wegrowski area of protected landscape.
(mag)