White Carpathians Protected Landscape Area ( sk, Chránená krajinná oblasť Biele Karpaty) is one of the Protected areas of Slovakia#Protected Landscape Areas, 14 protected landscape areas in Slovakia. The Landscape Area protects the Slovak part of the White Carpathians, part of the Slovak-Moravian Carpathians, in West Slovakia. The area stretches from Skalica District in the south west to the Púchov District in the north east, copying the border between Slovakia and the Czech Republic and is about 80 km long.
White Carpathians PLA was founded on 12 July 1979, and the law was amended on 28 August 2003.
Biology and ecology
Forests cover 299.8 km
2 (67.26%) of the area. The most widespread genera of trees are beech, linden tree, linden and Ash tree, ash. Other plants include orchids, for example ''Dactylorhiza, Dactylorhiza fuchsii subsp. sooiana'' and ''Ophrys, Ophrys holubyana''. Private fields are often home to endangered species, such as corncockle (''Agrostemma githago''), Ranunculus, corn buttercup (''Ranunculus arvensis'') and ''Nigella arvensis''.
Animals are represented by the European mantis, Rosalia longicorn, ''Lucanus cervus'', mountain Apollo, great crested newt, black stork, saker falcon, Eurasian eagle-owl, Eurasian lynx, and European wildcat.
See also
*Protected areas of Slovakia
References
BieleKarpaty.sk (official website)
External links
White Carpathians Protected Landscape Areaa
Slovakia.travel
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Protected areas of Slovakia
Protected areas established in 1979
Protected areas of the Western Carpathians