There are found narrow strips of meadows stretching alongside the wetlands. 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 woody vegetation or reeds and scrubs.
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