Bialowieza Primeval forest European Bison / Rezerwat Pokazowy 真br闚 w Bia這wie篡 My Fav Spot
Bialowieza Primeval forest European Bison
Rezerwat Pokazowy 真br闚 w Bia這wie篡
Bialowieza National Park is the oldest Polish national park, situated in an ancient woodland Bialowieza forest.Its beginning was forestry "Reserve" created in 1921, which was transformed in 1932 in "Bialowieza National Park", and this was reintroduced in 1947 as Bialowieza National Park. In 1977 the Bialowieza National Park was included to the network of Biosphere Reserves, and two years later entered as the only Polish natural object, a UNESCO World Heritage of Humanity. Primeval forest European bison was created in the park in 1937 with an area of 27.9 hectares, and in 1951 built a new reserve, directly adjacent to the show, with an area of 43.12 hectares, which is the base for bison reserve demonstration. In the reserve, in conditions similar to the natural, live bison, Polish horses (tarpans), elk, deer, roe deer, wild boar, zubron (a cross between a bison with domestic cattle), wolves and lynx. In the Polish part of the Bialowieza Forest maximum bison population status reached in 1998 - 298 units. Throughout the Bialowieza Forest in 1998 there lived in the wild, including 536 bison. It is the largest free-living population of European bison in one forest complex. The protection of the European bison has a long history; between the 15th and 18th centuries, those in the Forest of Bialowieza were protected and their diet supplemented. The European bison is the heaviest surviving wild land animal in Europe, in the free-ranging population of the Bialowieza Forest of Belarus and Poland, body masses among adults males are from 400 to 920 kg (880 to 2,030 lb), and among females from 300 to 540 kg (660 to 1,190 lb).
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