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Nature Conservation 5/2011 — 2. 1. 2012 — On Nature in the Czech Republic — Print article in pdf
The Poodří/Odra River Basin PLA staff members: On Twenty Years of the Poodří/Odra River Basin Protec
The Poodří/Odra River Basin Protected Landscape Area (PLA) situated in the Moravian-Silesian Region was declared on the territory of 81.5 km2on May 1, 1981 and in total, it is located across areas of 20 municipalities. The PLA Administrations seat is at the town of Studénka. The PLAs landscape has been shaped by humans, particularly by agriculture for a long time.
The Odra River is a crucial element in the less diversified landscape, being a real axis of the whole area and it passes through the region by a stretch reaching 57.5 km. The river is considered to be one of the best preserved lowland medium-sized in the Czech Republic. The Odra River displays extensive water overflowing across the surface within the PLA sometimes a year, when the water is overflowing freely in the landscape. Thus, flood waves possessing risk to human settlements located down the river are naturally slowed down by a floodplain. The PLA is a Wetland of International Importance designated under the Ramsar Convention (a Ramsar Site), being located just on the significant Central European bird flyway. Due to protection of bird species listed under the European Unions Bird Directive, namely the Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), Western Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus), Eurasian Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) and the Gadwall (Anas strepera), the Poodří/Odra River Basin River became a Bird Area (pursuant to Act No. 114/1992 Gazette on the Protection of Nature and the Landscape, as amended later, the term for the Special Protection Area, SPA under the Birds Directive). Since the PLA harbours an extremely important natural habitat types, it also is a Site of European Importance (pursuant the above act, the term for a Site of Community Importance, a SCI under the Habitats Directive) within the EUs NATURA 2000 network. Wildlife diversity is caused by a range of natural habitats, e.g. grasslands, watercourses, old river arms, pools, fishponds, other wetlands or forests which are inhabited by a lot of threatened wild plant and animal species (e.g., the Yellow Water-lilly Nuphar lutea, Floating Fern Salvinia natans, European Weather Loach Misgurnus fossilisor the Little Ramshorn Whirpool Snail Anisus vorticulus).