Lower Odra Valley Landscape Park

The Polish Landscape Park Lower Oder Valley ( Landscape Park Dolina Dolnej Odry ) is located in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship north of Widuchowa ( Fiddichow ) and south of Szczecin (Stettin ) between the eastern and western arm of the Oder in the counties Gryfino ( Pommern ) and Police ( Pölitz ). The park is the largest intact bog flooding in Central Europe will be protected. 81 % of this Mesopotamia are open marsh vegetation, 4% are covered by peat forests and about 12% do waters from.

The reserve was established in 1993 and covers an area of 6,009 ha and a further buffer zone of 1,149 ha The seat of administration is located in Gryfino. Together with the German national park forms the Lower Oder Valley Landscape Park, the heartland of the German - Polish International Park Lower Oder Valley.

The park has three nature reserves:

• Kurowskie Błota ( swamp at Kurow ): Founded in 1965, 31 hectares, originally founded to protect a cormorant colony, but now inhabited by about 600 pairs of herons,
• Kanał kwiatowy (flowering channel ): Founded in 1976, 3 hectares, oxbow lake of the Oder, the conservation of rare aquatic and marsh plants such as Common water fern and European floating heart, serves
• Klucki Ostrow ( island in Klucz ): Founded in 1994, 49.7 hectares, has both a natural floodplain vegetation, which is periodically flooded, a breeding colony of black-headed gull on.