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| Kampinos Forest Polish: Puszcza Kampinoska | |
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 Swamp in Kampinos Forest | |
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| Location | Masovian Voivodeship, Poland |
| Coordinates | 52°19′25″N 20°35′54″E / 52.32361°N 20.59833°E / 52.32361; 20.59833 |
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| Events | Palmiry massacre |
Kampinos Forest (Polish: Puszcza Kampinoska) is a large forest complex located in Masovian Voivodeship, west of Warsaw in Poland.
It covers a part of the ancient valley of the Vistula basin, between the Vistula and the Bzura rivers. The forest began to form 14-11,000 years ago, at the very end of the Last Glacial Period.
Once a forest covering 670 km of central Poland, it currently covers roughly 240 km. In its present day form, most of the woodland is no longer old-growth forest but rather the remainders of a once-managed forest which is now left to grow on its own, with little human intervention.
Kampinos National Park
Most of the Kampinos forest is currently protected within Kampinos National Park (Kampinoski Park Narodowy).
Among the distinctive features of the area is a combination of sandy dunes and marshes, with dense pine and spruce forest.
The forest is a Natura 2000 EU Special Protection Area.
See also
References
- Jastrzębowski, Szymon; Związek, Tomasz; Marek, Jacek, eds. (2023). Puszcza Kampinoska: opowieści o wydmach, mokradłach i sosnach: przewodnik po krajobrazach przyrodniczo-kulturowych (Wydanie I ed.). Kielce: Paśny Buriat. pp. 36–42. ISBN 978-83-968741-3-9.
- Jastrzębowski, Szymon; Związek, Tomasz; Marek, Jacek, eds. (2023). Puszcza Kampinoska: opowieści o wydmach, mokradłach i sosnach: przewodnik po krajobrazach przyrodniczo-kulturowych (Wydanie I ed.). Kielce: Paśny Buriat. p. 47. ISBN 978-83-968741-3-9.
- "Obwieszczenie w sprawie przyjęcia tymczasowych celów ochrony dla siedlisk przyrodniczych oraz gatunków i ich siedlisk będących przedmiotami ochrony w obszarze Natura 2000 Puszcza Kampinoska - Ministerstwo Klimatu i Środowiska - Portal Gov.pl". Ministerstwo Klimatu i Środowiska (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2023-12-03. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
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