Bialowieza
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Bialowieza (Białowieża) is a small village in the Podlaskie Voivodship in Eastern Poland. It is on the edge of the Bialowieza Forest
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- Bialowieza National Park (Białowieski Park Narodowy) is in Eastern Poland on the border between Poland and Byelorussia (formerly White Russia), east and a little north of Warszawa. It contains the Polish portion of the Bialowieza Forest.
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- main article: Bialowieza Forest
This is a primeval forest remnant in both Poland and Belarus, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It is the last remains of the primeval forest which once covered most of Europe at the end of the last ice age, which has never been completely forested. It contains several species of fauna which were once native in forests througout Europe, but which have now been mostly eradicated. It is for example the only place where European Bison, (German: Wisent, Polish: Zubrow) still remain free and living in the forest as they once did throughout Europe. Wolves, Lynx, Red Deer, Wild Boar, Elk (similar to Moose in N. America), and Roe Deer are among its other inhabitants.
Hopefully plans in the future will include returning reverse-bred versions of the extinct Przewalski's Horse and Aurochs, which can be found living in other smaller nature parks and zoos in Europe.
The inner-most sanctuary of Bialowieza is completely preserved and protected by a fence, with tourists only allowed inside with guides. Inside, the forest lives, breathes and decays at is has for thousands of years. Outside of the inner-sanctuary several more kilometers of forest are semi-preserved although sadly there are many reports of thinning and cutting of trees, supposedly due to disease, but more likely due to corruption and the market demand for large trees. Several extra kilometers of forest protection boundary could be added to this as a buffer.
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