There are 27 Protected Landscape Areas (IUCN Category V) and 4 National Parks (Category II) in the Czech Republic, and hundreds of small scale protected areas of different categories.
The Nature Conservation Journal was established in 1946. The journal deals with nature conservation and landscape protection in a broader context.
The marbled crayfish is an invasive species that compete with native crayfish species, can establish a new population from a single individual and is a vector of crayfish plague, which threatens native European crayfish species.
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The best-preserved natural mineral springs in the Czech Republic, surrounding mineral-rich fens, and wetland meadows spanning 6.38 hectares. This forms the new Číhan Fen Meadows Nature Reserve in the Mariánské Lázně region, designated by the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic (NCA CR) following several years of preparation.
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Drought does not benefit these rare meadow plants, although in some places, they are thriving surprisingly well. For example more than 16,000 specimens bloomed this year at the Kopičácký rybník National Nature Monument in the Nymburk region. The overall results of the nationwide survey will be available in October.
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In early September, the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic (NCA CR) received a report regarding the occurrence of a species previously unknown to Czech nature – the red swamp crayfish.
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