Bluish gentian  - protected speciesThere are found narrow strips of meadows stretching alongside the Mowing – essential precondition for meadows managementwetlands. Most of them are water meadows flourishing in acid and infertile soils. Natural meadows cover around 600 ha area. Corncrakes, Quails breed in the meadows of grasslands, in wet sedges – globally endangered Aquatic Warblers, Common Snipes (Gallinago gallinago). Different protected plant species flourish in these habitats, inter alia: Dactylorhiza baltica, narrow-leaved gentians. Unfortunately, large areas of these meadows are unexploited and impoverished, thus overgrown with Alluvium meadows beside Žuvintaswoody vegetation or reeds and scrubs.  


 

 

Zuvintas Biosphere Reserve
Aleknonys village, LT- 64301 SIMNAS,
Alytus region, Lithuania
Tel./Fax: +370 315 49540
zuvintas@takas.lt
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