Ostoja Slowinska is the only big fragment of the Baltic coast in Poland with natural course of processes forming a surface of a sand bar. A characteristic feature of the refuge is a variety of radically different seaside ecosystems, developing in a natural way within a contact zone of the land and the sea.  Ostoja Slowinska is located in Pomeranian voivodship in the counties of Lebork and Slupsk. It is a part of Pobrzeza Poludniowobaltyckie region (the South-Baltic Shorelands). The refuge covers the area of over 32.5 km of the Baltic coast, a wide sea sand bar separating two lakes Gardno and Lebsko from the sea and a fragment of a seaside plain. more »

The refuge lies in the central part of Polish coast, in Pomeranian voivodship, between Leba and Rowy. Among the characteristic elements of the landscape are seaside lakes, marshes, meadows and peat bogs, seaside woods, and most of all migrating dunes. more »