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The Lakefield National Park, second-largest national park in Queensland, Australia, features spectacular wetlands and extensive river systems. The park stretches from Princess Charlotte Bay in the north to the town of Laura, covering 5,370 km². The dominant vegetation in the park is eucalypt woodland and gallery forest associated with waterways.

The amendment to Act No. 114/1992 Gazette on the Protection of Nature and the Landscape, namely Act No. 349/2009 Gazette has fundamentally changed ways how Sites of European Importance (pursuant to the above Act, the term for Site of Community Importance, SCI under the European Community’s Habitats Directive) are officially protected and managed in the Czech Republic.

Cumulative effects of building activities (particularly family and boarding houses) on traditionally managed meadows pose a serious problem in the Natura 2000 SCI Krkonoše/Giant Mts. Loss of the meadows caused by individual house-building projects is often too small to justify their prohibition despite they directly influence/destroy even the priority target features within the SCI. However, the projects considerably reduce total area of meadows due to cumulative effects of their high number.

The Mt. Praděd Nature National Reserve (the Jeseníky Mts. Protected Landscape Area, northern Moravia) is the largest Nature National Reserve (NNR) in the Czech Republic, covering just 2,000 hectares. The area has been protected since 1955. As a popular ski destination, the NNR has had to be faced with various affects, related both to tourism and sport activities carried out by visitors and associated phenomena, e.g.building the transport infrastructure or accommodation capacities.

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.

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 author does not describe beauties of the Yellowstone or Yosemite NP in the western part of the U.S.A., but takes readers to the Sun in the Glacier National Park in Montana. In 1932, both the Glacier National Park and Waterton Lakes National Park were declared as the worlds first International Peace Park under the name Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.

The 10^thmeeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) held in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, from 18 to 29 October 2010, finally achieved its three inter-linked goals: adoption of a new ten year Strategic Plan to guide international and national efforts to save biodiversity through enhanced actions to meet the CBD objectives; a resource mobilization strategy that provides the way forward to a substantial increase to current levels of official development assistance (ODA) in support of biodiversity; and a new international protocol on access to and sharing of benefits from the use of genetic resources of the planet.

The Menetries Ground Beetle (Carabus menetriesi) is a critically endangered member of the ground beetle (Carabidae) family. Pursuant to Directive No. 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (Habitats Directive), it is the priority species to be protected in the European Union. At the same time, the insect species is included into the Czech Republics Red List of Threatened Species.