Bebrzhansky National Park

Bebrzhanski National Park is the largest of Poland’s 23 national parks, established on 9 September 1993. The area of the park is 592.23 square kilometers: it includes forests, fields and meadows, as well as the famous Biebrge swamps, which are its value.

Bebrzhanski National Park is located on the banks of the Bebrzha River, in Podlaska Voivodeship, in northeastern Poland. Swamps are the greatest value of the park. In 1995, the park was eclipsed as a wetland of world importance and protected by the Ramsar Convention. The most important part of the park is called the Red March, which is under strict protection.

In the territory of Bebrzhansky Park there are 49 species of mammals, 275 species of birds, 36 species of fish 12 species of amphibians, five species of reptiles. Invertebrates are represented by more than 700 species of butterflies, 448 species of spiders, more than 500 species of beetles, 19 species of leeches and 42 species of cadets. Vegetation in the park is characterized by a great variety, the rarest species on its territory: birch is low, willow Loparskaya, a real shoe, a bile-leaved, a round-leaved dew, a year-long plow.