Kampinos Forest

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Kampinos Forest
Polish: Puszcza Kampinoska
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Swamp in Kampinos Forest
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Geography
Location Masovian Voivodeship,Poland
Coordinates 52°19′25″N20°35′54″E / 52.32361°N 20.59833°E / 52.32361; 20.59833
Administration
Events Palmiry massacre

Kampinos Forest (Polish : Puszcza Kampinoska) is a large forest complex located in Masovian Voivodeship, west of Warsaw in Poland.

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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. [1]

Once a forest covering 670 km2 of central Poland, it currently covers roughly 240 km2. 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. [2]

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. [3]

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References

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. "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.