National Park «Enchanted Land»

What to see

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  Oligotrophic sphagnum bog “Black mud”

  Oligotrophic sphagnum bog “Black mud” is the hallmark of not only Irshavschyny, Transcarpathia, and the entire European community. It is the deepest moss of Ukrainian Carpathians (depth of almost 7m), has a pronounced convex surface and covers an area of 15 hectares.

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  Enchanted Valley

  Geological reserve of local importance “Enchanted Valley” has area of 150 hectares, which is marked by a kind of rare forms of rocky terrain. Here as a result of water-aerial erosion having original stone formations up to 100 m. Some of them are named Rock, Stone Spruce, Stone Camel, Castle Ruins, Stone Throne.

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  Primeval Beech Forests

  Primeval Beech Forests, rock works, waterways plateau in the upper reaches of the highest peak of Vygorlat-Hutyn volcanic ridge of the mountain Bujora - 1085 m above sea level. This object was submitted for consideration to the World Heritage Site by "UNESCO" in April 2014.

How to get

Interesting facts

• Flora and fauna

  There is a high species diversity of flora in mountainous landscapes due to a large variability of environmental conditions (different exposure, slope, different climate zones, etc.).
  
  In the territory of the natural park “Enchanted Land” were found about 1500 species of animals and 8,000 species of insects. Among the identified 32 species are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine, 11 – in the European Red List, 36 species – in the Carpathian list of species threatened.
  
  Vertebrate fauna of the park is typical for the lower part of the forest and foothill zone of volcanic ridge. In total there are 5 species of fish, 8 species of amphibians, 8 species of reptiles, 86 species of birds and 34 species of mammals.

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• Colony of beavers

  Workers of the park found a colony of beavers on site of oligotrophic bogs “Black mud” at an altitude of 840 meters above sea level. This is a unique case. Reed Beavers originated 10-12 million years ago in southern Europe. It is characterized by band settling on riverbeds.
  
  Beaver – is the largest river rodent whose body length reaches 120 cm, weight - 20-25 kg. Main food are aspen, willow, birch less. This is typical for the locality where they were found.

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Ecoeducation

Natural park “Enchanted Land” is the center of environmental education, training and improving the environmental culture of the population. The institution also is working on environmental education, recreation, eco-tourism.

Workers of “Enchanted Land” conduct educational and informative tour marked by environmental paths and routes; cooperate with domestic and international government, NGOs of environmental and conservation area, educational institutions; give lessons on environmental issues involving school children and adults of different social groups to conduct mass ecological actions, contests, quizzes, form-based institutions training center in environmental education and educational work.