Bishchadsky National Park

Bieszczádski National Park is a huge reserve in Poland, the third largest national park in the country, part of the Eastern Carpathians International Biosphere Reserve of Poland, Ukraine and Slovakia. The park was founded on August 4, 1973.

Bieszczádski National Park is located on the territory of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in southeastern Poland, near the border with Slovakia and Ukraine. The park is located in the Beschada Mountains, which are the western part of the Eastern Beskid Range. It includes two levels of mountain vegetation: the lower subalpine and alpine meadows. It has several natural and paved roads that are used as hiking trails.

Bishchadsky Park is a habitat for more than 230 species of animals, 58 species of mammals - bears, wolves, lynxes, wild cats, bison, deer, yaks. In it there are 140 species of nesting birds - eagles, small sparrows, snakes, osodes. There are more than 780 species of plants, 500 species of lichens, 250 species of mosses and 1000 species of fungi, of which 30 species are endemic to all the Eastern Carpathians.