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Bialogora
Area description
Białogora is a less known summerresort than Dabki. Some large patches of natural, wild beaches are preserved in this region. You can find here such precious habitats like bog woodland and Decalcified fixed dunes with Empetrum nigrum. This region is protected within the Natura 2000 network as a Site of Community Importance.

Location
The area is located in the Pomeranian voivodeship, within the borders of Krokowa and Czochowo boroughs. It covers the area of 1019,6 ha with the average height reaching 20 m asl. and is a part of Seaside Landscape Park.

Ecosystem
Slowinska Spit (Mierzeja Slowinska) is built out of aeolic forms, mostly parabolic dunes and hollows with peat bogs.
In this area we can find 9 different types of habitats that are included in the Annex I of Habitats Directive:

  • bog woodland,
  • humid dune slacks,
  • shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria (white dunes),
  • fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation (grey dunes),
  • northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix,
  • decalcified fixed dunes with Empetrum nigrum,
  • wooded dunes of the Atlantic, Continental and Boreal region,
  • active raised bogs,
  • embryonic shifting dunes.

Special evironmental values
Bialogora is a region with unique environmental features like preserved forest and peat bog complexes, showing natural plant succession. Especially important are the assemblies of peat-bog plants with species like: sweetgale, cross-leaved heath, shoreweed, heath rush, tufted bulrush. Bialogora is also one of the two places in Poland where you can find Many-stalked Spike-rush (Eleocharis multicaulis).

Flora
The flora of this area is very rich and consists of many precious protected species. From among them, the most precious are: sand sedge, english sundew, spatulate-leaved sundew, round leaf sundew, glossy buckthorn, dwarf everlast, heart-leaved twayblade, shoreweed, common polypody and many others.

Threats
The biggest threat for this area is the intense human activity – foresting and destruction of dunes.

Nature Protection
There are numerous forms of nature protection within the borders of this area, such as:

  • Nature reserve "Babnica";
  • Nature reserve "Białogora";
  • Maritime Landscape Park;
  • Maritime area of protected landscape;
  • Ecological grounds "Białogorskie Torfowisko";
  • Ecological grounds "Torfowisko w Szklanej Hucie".
Malgorzata Misztal