On Nature 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.

The Broumov region, an extremity of the Czech borders forced among the Orlické hory/Eagle, Mts., Krkonoše/Giant Mts. and the Polish Klodzko region, is one of the Protected Landscape Areas (PLA) in the Czech Republic. In 2011, the Broumovsko PLA has celebrating its 20^thanniversary. It was declared on the territory of 430 km² in 1991.

The Žďárské vrchy Hills Protected Landscape Area (PLA) located in the Districts of Žďár nad Sázavou, Havlíčkův Brod, Chrudim and Svitavy was declared on the territory of 709 km²in 1970. Its elevation ranges between 490 and 836.3 m a.s.l., the latter being Mt. Devět skal/Nine Rocks, the highest peak of the area. The PLAs administration managing nature and the landscape administration is based at Žďár nad Sázavou.

The Litovelské Pomoraví/Litovel Morava River Basin Protected Landscape Area (PLA) situated in Central Moravia between the city of Olomouc and town of Mohelnice was declared on the territory of 96 km²on October 29, 1990.

The Doupovske hory/Doupov Hills are situated in northwestern Bohemia between the towns of Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad and Kadaň.

In 2010, 60 years have passed since the discovery of the Koněprusy Caves, the biggest cave system in Bohemia, and 51 years since their part became a show cave.

Within large-size territorial protection of from a point of view of nature history valuable areas, the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic submitted a proposal to establish the Soutok Protected Landscape Area (PLA).

The Bílé Karpaty/White Carpathian Mts. were designated a Protected Landscape Area (PLA) in 1980 and became a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1996. The PLA includes hills and low mountains which were folded in the Tertiary, in the same time as the Alps were.

The Blanský les Protected Landscape Area (PLA) was declared on the territory of 212 km²on December 8, 1989. Its main aim is to protect well-preserved mixed forests, to manage sites rich in flora and fauna and to maintain the typical landscape scenery/character.

The Krušné hory/Ore Mts. stretches for 130 km along the north-western Czech-German border. Low mountains is a part of the Bohemian Massif and it shape has been essentially influenced by folding, denundation and tectonic activities.