Forest facts

What is Klánovice-Čihadla Nature Park?

Monday, 20 August 2007 00:04

The Klánovice-Čihadla Nature Park is the largest protected nature reserve in Prague, declared as a park in 1991. A part of the park is the whole land area of Klánovice.

The park consists of a large, scientifically remarkable complex, consisting of several specially protected areas: the Klánovice Forest, Cyrilov, Počernický Pond, Pískovna and Xaverovský Grove.  The total area of the park is 2,222.8 hectares.  The nature reserve is used as a recreation area.

 

The specially protected areas in Klánovice-Čihadla Nature Park are shown in the Atlas of the Environment in Prague here.

 

Klánovice Forest (also called Vidrholec or Fiedrholec) is the most important part of the Klánovice-Čihadla Nature Park.  It covers an area of approximately 900 hectares on the eastern outskirts of Prague between Upper Počernice, Újezd nad Lesy, Úvaly, New Jirny and Šestajovice.  Almost all of the Prague component of the forest is protected as the Klánovice-Čihadla Nature Park and more than a third of it as the Klánovice - Cyrilov nature reserve (364.61 hectares).  The nature reserve has three parts.  Near Jirny, the part of the forest called Cyrilov falls within the Klánovice, Újezd of Forests and Šestajovice land register.  The other two parts of the reserve are formed by Blatov in the West and Vidrholec in the South. Klánovice Forest is notable for its network of routes that dissect it at rightangles.

 

A panorama of the forest, which in Prague still retains otherwise rare biological diversity

 

The significance of forests

Sunday, 15 July 2007 16:37

Trees produce oxygen as a product of photosynthesis, but they also breathe, which means that part of this oxygen is also consumed.  Overall, however, plants, including trees, produce more oxygen than they consume.  Each new tree that we plant, during its growth will add precious oxygen into the air and absorb carbon dioxide - the most important greenhouse gas - into its trunk and leaves.  This reduces the amount of carbon in the air and prevents climate changes closely linked to so-called greenhouse gases.

 

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