The Laučynė Landscape Sanctuary () is a protected area of a state importance in

Josvainiai Eldership Josvainiai Eldership () is a Lithuanian eldership, located in the southern part of Kėdainiai District Municipality. Eldership was created from the Josvainiai ''selsovet'' in 1993. Geography The territory of Josvainiai Eldership is located mostl ...

Kėdainiai District Municipality Kėdainiai () is one of the oldest List of cities in Lithuania, cities in Lithuania. It is located north of Lithuania's second largest city Kaunas on the banks of the Nevėžis River. Kėdainiai were first mentioned in the 1372 Livonian Chronicle ...

, in central

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

. It was established in 1992 and covers an area of . It encompasses a part of the

Pernarava-Šaravai Forest The Pernarava-Šaravai Forest () is a forest in Kėdainiai District Municipality, central Lithuania, located west off Josvainiai. Covering an area of , it consists of smaller forests: the Šaravai Forest, the Sviliai Forest, the Pernarava Forest, ...

with the Žvaranta river. The aim of the sanctuary is to protect a typical landscape of the

Nevėžis Plain file:SurviliskioSen001.JPG, 240px, The Nevėžis Plain near Urbeliai village in Kėdainiai District Municipality The Nevėžis Plain () is a plain (lowland) in central Lithuania, and makes a part of the Central Lithuanian Plain. Its northern limi ...

covered by forest.

Mixed forest Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest is a temperate climate terrestrial habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature, with broadleaf tree ecoregions, and with conifer and broadleaf tree mixed coniferous forest ecoregions. These ...

s predominate in the sanctuary, with

small-leaved lime ''Tilia cordata'', the small-leaved lime or small-leaved linden, is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to much of Europe. Other common names include little-leaf or littleleaf linden, or traditionally in South East England, pry or p ...

and

hornbeam Hornbeams are hardwood trees in the plant genus ''Carpinus'' in the family Betulaceae. Its species occur across much of the temperateness, temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Common names The common English name ''hornbeam'' derives ...

tree groups. Rare

wild garlic Plant species in the genus ''Allium ''Allium'' is a large genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants with around 1000 accepted species, making ''Allium'' the largest genus in the family Amaryllidaceae and among the largest plant genera in the wo ...

and

common ivy ''Hedera helix'', the common ivy, European ivy, King's Choice ivy, or just ivy, is a species of flowering plant in the family (biology), family Araliaceae. It is native plant, native to most of Europe and parts of western Asia. Ivy is a clinging ...

grow in the forest. There are crane nesting places. The Šaravai Oak Tree (a nature monument) grows in the Laučynė Landscape Sanctuary.

References

{{KaunasCounty-geo-stub Protected areas in Kėdainiai District Municipality 1992 establishments in Lithuania