Environment protection in

Poland

What is the environment?

The environment is generally around us and interrelated natural elements, which include natural resources and the products of human activity.

Forms of nature protection

*National parks*Nature parks*Natural monuments*Nature reserves

National ParksNational park is the highest form of legal protection of nature covers an area characterized by particular natural, scientific, social, cultural and educational, with an area of not less than 1,000 hectares. Protection is subject to all nature and landscape values.

Słowiński National

Park

Sea holly – Mikołajek nadmorski

Sand sedge - Turzyca piaskowa

Bory Tucholskie

Sphagnum papillary – torfowiec brodawkowaty

(Sphagnum papillosum)

WHITE-TAILED EAGLE - BIELIK HALIAEETUS

ALBICILLA

*Landscape parksNature Park covers an area protected because of the natural, historical and cultural and landscape values to the preservation and promotion of these values in conditions of sustainable development

Kaszubski Nature Park

Natural monumentsNatural monuments include Single bushes, old

trees and groups of trees and the historic avenues of trees. Monuments of inanimate nature are: the biggest boulders forms of the earth's surface for example - source rocks, waterfalls, river gorges or caves.

Oak Bartek - Dąb Bartek Pielgrzymy