The Year of Protected Landscape Areas is Coming
Under the auspices of UNESCO, the entire year 2026 will commemorate their importance. Czech Republic´s nature and landscape will commemorate several anniversaries in 2026.
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This webpage serves as the Clearing-House Mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity in the Czech Republic.
There are 27 Protected Landscape Areas (IUCN Category V) and 4 National Parks (Category II) in the Czech Republic, and hundreds of small scale protected areas of different categories.

The Nature Conservation Journal was established in 1946. The journal deals with nature conservation and landscape protection in a broader context.

Under the auspices of UNESCO, the entire year 2026 will commemorate their importance. Czech Republic´s nature and landscape will commemorate several anniversaries in 2026.
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A total of 115 European ground squirrels from many Czech and foreign partner organizations have been released this summer at 5 different localities. Such activities are part of the Action Plan for this critically endangered rodent species, developed and coordinated by Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic. Implementation of the Action Plan is currently funded mostly by PROSPECTIVE LIFE project.
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It contains a selection of 14 articles of 2024 that may be of interest to international readers, along with brief summaries of all content published in the journal during the year 2024.
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