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Site code
PLH 280003

English name:
Karas Lake

Pojezierza Poludniowobaltyckie

Jezioro Karas

Jezioro Karas is a Site of Community Importance with the area of 815.5 ha. The refuge encompasses vast complex of peatbogs, marshes and lakes which is in the decline of lake's evolution. There are excellently preserved complexes of lake hydrophytes in Jezioro Karas, and very rare Charophyceae complexes among them. 7 species of Charophyceae occurring there are mentioned in Red List of Threatened Algae in Poland. Jezioro Karas is located in warminsko-mazurskie voivodeship, 6 km from Ilawa city. It encompasses the surface of 815.5 ha. more »

The Site of Community Importance is located in the distnace of 6 km from Ilawa city. more »

The region of Pojezierza Poludniowobałtyckie (Southern Baltic Lakes) covers the area of 77 thousand sq km, which constitutes 25 percent of Poland’s... more»

Bory Tucholskie National Park

Bory Tucholskie National Park was established in 1996, on the area of 4,789 ha. The Park is located in the central-north part of Poland within the Polish largest forest complex - Bory Tucholskie.

There are about 300 species of lichens in Tuchola Forest, most of them are characteristic for ecosystems of tundra and steppe.