Peatbogs are places widely regarded as dangerous and mysterious - marshes, swamps, deep waters. For centuries they have been present in dark legends, stories, sagas. In fact peatbogs are ecosystems of special natural value and often high scientific importance. Their inaccessibility scares off the prying and at the same time allows development of rare and endangered species of flora and fauna. This is exactly the case of "Torfowisko pod Zielencem" - a site of community importance within Natura 2000 European Network. more »
Sudeten province occupies on Polish territory area of about 9.3 thousand km² (approximately 3% of area of the country). The landscape in the region... more»
The Karkonosze National Park was established in 1959 to include an area of 5,510 ha. Since 1992 the Karkonosze National Park has been included into the Bilateral Biosphere Reserve Karkonosze/Krkonoše (MaB) which covers over 60,000 ha.