Szentegáti forest Nature Conservation Area - Duna-Dráva NP (sitios de interés)
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| Territory of the protected area: 235 hectares. Location: The protected area is situated to the south of Szigetvár, beside the village of Szentegát. Visitors: It cannot be visited during hatching time, otherwise visiting is under restrictions. Management: Directorate of the Duna–Dráva National Park The flora and fauna along the Dráva can be surprising for the uninitiated, since the flora and fauna of the plain areas along the river are not characteristic of Transylvania in the first place, but they are rather similar to those of the Dél-Alföld (South). The Szentgáti forest is even more special, because it is the relict of an old meteorological period of the Carpathian Basin. The forest is the relict of one of the shorter cold periods between the great glacials, called the Bükk I. The characteristic montane psychrophilous beech associations such as the Szentgáti forest emerged in this period even in flat areas. Patches of beeches – from earlier cold periods – have survived in a relatively good condition in the predominant hornbeam-oak associations. The undergrowth provides refuge to a lot of montane species: the wood speedwell (Veronica montana), the European ginger (Asarum europaeum), the wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosela), the rue-leaved isopyrum (Isopyrum thalictroides) and the yellow dead-nettle (Lamium galeobdolon) grow in the area.  ancient chapel in the forest Further specialty is that on the top of all that a group of thermophile plants corresponding to the region are also present in the forest such as the silver lime, butcher's broom, the black bryony and the thin-spiked wood-sedge (Carex strigosa). This is still not all, because there are such rarities too, as the narrow-leaved helleborine, the common twayblade or the broad helleborine. The precious asset of the fauna of the forest is the red kite couple (Milvus milvus), the only nesting couple in Hungary. Other valuable species: the black kite, the black stork, the tree-creeper (Certhia familiaris), the stock dove, the hobby and the grive draine (Turdus viscivorus) hatch in the forest. http://www.foek.hu/zsibongo/termve/tt/angtt/szentega.htm |