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• Dear friends from our Comenius project.We would like to show you several problems in our area related to the future of tourism. Especially with the question : how to protect nature and preserve it for future generations. It is just nature - one of the most important conditions of tourism.

• From our point of view we would like to show you how and why is our region protected and some problems connected to it.

National Parks and Protected Landscape Areas in the Czech Republic

CHKO Lužické Hory CHKO Český Ráj

Národní park České Švýcarsko Krkonošský národní park

CHKO České Středohoří CHKO Broumovsko

CHKO Slavkovský les CHKO Orlické Hory

CHKO Křivoklátsko CHKO Jeseníky

CHKO CHKO Český kras CHKO Litovelské Pomoraví

Český Les CHKO Blaník CHKO Poodří

CHKO a

Národní park Šumava CHKO Beskydy

CHKO Blanský les CHKO Bílé Karpaty

CHKO Třeboňsko CHKO Pálava CHKO Moravský kras

Národní park Podyjí

CHKO Žďárské vrchy

CHKO Železné hory

CHKO Jizerské Hory

CHKO Kokořínsko

CHKO Labské pískovce

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• On this map you can see protected areas – large-scale are national parks and Protected Landscape Areas

Basic information• Český ráj (The Bohemian Paradise)

• This Protected Landscape Area was the first large-scale specially Protected Area in the Czech Republic

• established in1955 on an area of 92 km²

• nowadays : 181 km2

BOHEMIAN(Czech) PARADISE

Photos of Czech Paradise

Protected - why?• this countryside has been modified by man for

thousands of years, though in relative harmony with nature

• the aim is to conserve natural treasures, the character of the landscape and biodiversity

• the area is formed mainly of block sandstones

• the current form of the rocks is the result of the long-term effects of forces rising the Earth’s core and of long-term erosion.

!Traffic problem in Bohemian Paradise !

Traffic problem in Bohemian Paradise- Je skryto

• There is the problem with the planned main road – motorway- going through the protected area of Bohemian Paradise . A lot of people protest and organise protest marches and wanted to stop it.

• Nobody knows how it will end.???????

Geopark Bohemian Paradise• Bohemian Paradise became the first

Czech member of European/Global Geopark Networks in 2005

• the geopark area with nearly 700 km2

is larger than Protected Landscape Area of Bohemian Paradise which is situated in its center

• thanks this fact was our town Nová Paka joined into this large protected area

• www.worldgeopark.org

• www.worldgeopark.eu

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Geopark Bohemian Paradise

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• The geopark includes variety of geological phenomens, paleontological, mineralogical- G signs and archeological localities- A signs and historical monuments- M signs for museums and other signs for castles and ruins of castles and for folk architecture ( old wooden country cotages) and numbers fro 1 – 14 mean rock towns with

Nová Paka –the east gate into the Geopark Bohemian Paradise

Nová Paka as a part of Geopark Bohemian Paradise – why?

• Petrified (stoned)Forest is one of the phenomens in this geopark

• petrified wood can be found in our = Nová Paka region. The biggest part of the petrified tree (tree of auraukarit) ever found is the 8 m long one exhibited in the garden of the town

museum in

Nová Paka.

Nová Paka-Petrified (stoned)Forest everywhere

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• You can see some photos from construction site of the supermarket Lidl in our town . The work had to be stopped and the geologists came to explore this site and it was found the longest petrified tree ever but unfortunately it broke in to smaler parts and some of its parts were brought into our geological town museum.

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• Now you can see some photos from the museum

• Our town is situated near the National park Krkonoše English called Giant mountains

• The main problem is the balanced relationship between the nature and tourism – especially winter skiing

KRKONOŠE MOUNTAINS- National Park

Photos of Krkonoše

Po první prezentaci• Next you will see a short film which show you the

nowadays problem of the spa Lázně Bělohrad in our region, especially protection of swamp and moor area in farmer countness phasantry and nessessity of using peat for medical porposes from other unprotected areas.

• In this film you will also see the newest spa hotel in which students from our school – studying gastronomy and tourism education fields - have their practical lesssons.

• of course we are acting in this film so forgive us some mistakes- you know we aren´t professional acters.