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Białowieża Forest is a large forest complex on the border between Poland and Belarus. It is one of the last and the largest remaining part of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain. The forest is home to more than 800 European bisons, Europe's heaviest land animal. [2]
At the end of the 18th century, forests covered around 40% of Poland. [1] However, due to the 19th century economic exploitation during the partitions of Poland, as well as, the Nazi German and Soviet occupations between 1939–1945 with trees shipped to battle fronts across Europe, deforestation and slash and burn conditions of war shrank Polish forests to only 21% of total area of the ...
Within Poland the range includes two major basins, the Oświęcim and Sandomierz, which are rich in several minerals and natural gas. To the north of the central lowlands, the lake region includes primeval forests - one of the last remaining in Europe and much of Poland's shrinking unspoiled natural habitat. Glacial action in this region formed ...
The Western European broadleaf forests is an ecoregion in Western Europe, and parts of the Alps. It comprises temperate broadleaf and mixed forests, that cover large areas of France, Germany and the Czech Republic and more moderately sized parts of Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and South Limburg (Netherlands). Luxembourg is also part of ...
Most of Poland's natural vegetation is deciduous woodlands of the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome. [2] Poland has three temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregions: The Central European mixed forests ecoregion covers the largest portion of Poland, spanning from Lithuania to Romania, and from Germany to western Russia. [3] [4] [5]
Map Photo PA0501 Alps conifer and mixed forests: Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia PA0503 Caledonian conifer Forest: United Kingdom PA0504 Carpathian montane conifer forests [Note 1] Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine PA0520 Scandinavian coastal conifer forests: Norway
The total area of the park is 105.2 square kilometres (40.6 sq mi). It is located 62 km (39 mi) southeast of Białystok (Poland). It is known for the protection of the best preserved part of the Białowieża Forest, Europe's last temperate primaeval forest fragment that once allegedly stretched across the European Plain.
Remaining forest in Central Europe today is not generally considered natural forest, but rather a cultural landscape created over thousands of years which consists almost exclusively of replacement communities. The oldest evidence of human and forest interaction in Central Europe is the use of hand axes about 500 thousand years ago.