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Bieszczady National Park
 
Forest covers 80% of this remotely located area, once called the "Polish Wild East." The park protects a part of Europe's largest primeval and natural beech forest complex. The largest mountain national park in Poland is the only park which protects all of Poland's large mammals and predators, including the Brown Bear, Wolf, Lynx, European Bison, Red Deer, Wildcat, and Golden Eagle and Eagle Owl among numerous birds of prey.



  • the park is home to almost 780 species of vascular plants?
  • there are approximately 30 species of Eastern-Carpathian plants, which distinguish the national park from all other Polish national parks?
  • the park is refuge for 231 species of vertebrate species?
  • the Bieszczady Mountains are the most important refuge of brown bear in Poland? The size of its population is about 50 animals.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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