The Mt. Blaník Protected Landscape Area Thirty Year Old
The Mt. Blaník Protected Landscape Area (PLA) located in central Bohemia was declared on December 29, 1981, covering 709 km2. It main aim is to preserve harmonically formed, biologically healthy landscape with the central dominant – the mysterious Mt. Blaník. The PLA harbours specific countryside settlements including rests of folk vermacular architecture, sacral buildings and small rural castles. Velký/Big and Malý/Little Blaník peaks have been famous due to the old Czech legend on the Knights of Blaník.
Nature Conservation 2/2011 — 11. 7. 2011 — On Nature in the Czech Republic — Print article in pdf
The Pluto’s Temple – The Second Longest Non-karst Cave in the Czech Republic
In 2006, the Pluto Temple cave system was discovered in the Teplice Rocks (the Broumov Highlands, the Adrspach-Teplice Rocks National Nature Reserve, northeastern Bohemia). The system consists of mostly underground space in block broken rocks on the edge of two gorges. Broken caves are located particularly along underground water course stretches of the gorges.
Nature Conservation 2/2011 — 11. 7. 2011 — On Nature in the Czech Republic — Print article in pdf