Biele Karpaty Protected Landscape Area

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox Protected area White Carpathians Protected Landscape Area (Template:Langx) is one of the 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 Template:Cvt long.[1] It belongs to the western-most part of the Carpathian Mountains.

White Carpathians PLA was founded on 12 July 1979, and the law was amended on 28 August 2003.

Biology and ecology

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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

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