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Zittau Mountain Nature Park

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Location
  
Saxony, Germany

Established
  
2008

Area
  
133 km²

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Governing body
  
German Federal Environment Ministry

The Zittau Mountain Nature Park (German: Zittauer Gebirge Naturpark) is a nature park in Germany, created in 2008. It lies near to borders of Poland and Czech Republic. It covers an area of 113 square kilometres (44 sq mi) of forests, lakes, meadows and peatlands.

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Protected areas

  • Protection zone I (117 acres) includes the areas with the most valuable natural features and smaller nature parks, the Lausche and Jonsdorfer Felsenstadt.
  • Protection zone II (7611 acres) includes the landscape parks of Zittauer Gebirge and Mandautal.
  • Protection zone III (4610 acres) includes the settlement areas.

    • Fauna and flora

    There are many protected species in the park, like arnica montana, aster alpinus, drosera rotundifolia, pedicularis palustris and many orchids. The alpine shrew and many species of owl also live there.

    References

    Zittau Mountain Nature Park Wikipedia
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