1. The national park of wielkopolska
Maciej Pluto, Jakub Felman, Oskar Staszewski

2. About polish national parks
In our „great and beautiful” country we have 23 national parks,122 landscaped parks, 1481 nature reserves, and natural monuments. We are going to describe you The National Park of Wielkopolska.

3. History of the park
The National Park of Wielkopolska was created on April 16, 1957 pursuant to a regulation by the Council of Ministers, the area within its borders was 9600ha, and 5100 was to be administered by the Park. In 1996 a new regulation by the Council of Ministers concerning the National Park limited its area to 7584ha and created a protected buffer zone around the Park. This zone's area, together with the area of the Park, totaled 14840ha. Some areas were excluded form the Park, such as the urban areas of Puszczykowo, Mosina and Stęszew. The National Park of Wielkopolska is located around 15 km south of Poznań and has a very convenient bus and train connection with this city (Poznań- Wrocław rail line), and through Poznań, thanks to many fast trains, also with Warsaw.

5. Areas of strict preservation
Bagno dębienko- area : 21,23 ha the aim of preservation : a nesting area for water and bog fowl and a grouping of reed (Phragmitetum comunis) with a belt of sedge, Description : A bog area protecting concentration of reed (Phragmitetum comunis) with a belt of sedge and a nesting site for water and bog fowl. It is a boggy area soaked with water, located in a deep cut in the moraine high land, Trzebawka River is its tributarySuche zboża- area : 3,54 ha the aim of preservation : a subcontinental young forest complex, rare in Wielkopolska  Description : A forest zone protecting a subcontinental young forest complex, rare in Wielkopolska, located on the sunny southwestern slope of the moraine high land.Bór mieszany-area : 3,54 ha the aim of preservation : continental mixed forest with a trend towards becoming an aciduous oak forest complex Description : A forest zone, protecting a continental mixed forest, located at the bottom of the swelling of the Pożegnowska Moraine, where the Rosnowo - Jarosławiec trough valley joins the Warta Valley. This forest has a tendency of transforming into an aciduous oak forest complex. Cel ochrony : kontynentalny bór mieszany wykazujący tendencję do przekształcania się w zespół kwaśnej dąbrowy,  Charakterystyka : Obszar leśny, chroniący kontynentalny bór mieszany, położony u stóp spiętrzonej Moreny Pożegowskiej, przy ujściu Rynny Rosnowsko - Jarosławieckiej do doliny Warty. Las ten wykazuje tendencję do przekształcania się w zespół kwaśnej dąbrowy.

6. Areas of strict preservation
Jezioro góreckie- area : 64,86 ha the aim of preservation : landscape of a trough lake with flora and fauna linked with its water habitat Description : A protection zone created in order to preserve the landscape of the Park's most beautiful trough lake with unique flora and fauna linked with its water habitat area : 21,73 ha the aim of preservation : process of ecological succession; the lake is at the stage of gradual overgrowing and shallowing Description : A zone with a trough lake under preservation. The lake is at the stage of gradual overgrowing and shallowing, with clearly visible areas taken over by plants, corresponding to the successive stages of ecological succession.

7. World of fauna
The fauna of the National Park of Wielkopolska is characterized by a huge multitude of species belonging to various systematic groups. Central European and Eurosiberian The species are predominant in the Park.
The richest group are the invertebrates, with the most numerous representation of insects, with over three thousand species. The forests are also full of beetles.
Among them are such protected species as the stag beetle or cerambyx cerdo, but also the more common ones which actually damage the trees, among others, pine trees - two species of tomicus piniperda, phaenops cyanea (pine pest) and striped ambrosia beetle. Dry and warm locations are inhabited by orthoptera, such as the great green bush cricket or the field cricket as well as hymenoptera, such as, among others, the southern wood ant.
The world of arachnida is also extremely richly represented. From some more interesting species, it has been determined that you can find the Argiope bruennichi spider here, the biggest representative of the araneidae family in Poland, and the water spider - the only species in the country which spends its whole life under water. Mollusks form another important group of invertebrates. There are around 104 species of such animals present in the Park, among others, the zebra mussel and two species of snails, including the helicella obvia.

8. flora
The world of plants in the National Park of Wielkopolska is extremely abundant. From the geo-botanical point of view the Park is located in the Wielkopolska-Kujawy region. It has been determined that the plant species naturally occurring here are: 1120 species of vascular plants, 148 species of moss, 150 species of lichen, 500 species  of algae, 800 species of fungi.
The main element of the Park's flora consists of Eurosiberian species, among others, the common pine (its share in the Park's forests is 70%), as well as many plants of the forest's ground cover, such as herb Paris, or May lily and Centraleuropean species, for example, the pedunculate oak, hornbeam, yellow foxglove and white cinquefoil.
From some northern plants, we could list the twinflower, a relict plant from the Ice Age. Because of the influence of a mild and humid climate of the Western Europe, species of a rather Atlantic character can be found among the plants of the National Park. Among others, common honeysuckle, pennywort and barren strawberry grow here.
A rare tree, sorbus terminalis, the so-called wild service tree, also belongs to plants  of a mild climate. Particular plant species are naturally grouped according to their environmental requirements.

9. Autorzy:
1. Maciej Pluto
2. Oskar Staszewski
3. Jakub Felman
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