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Belovezhskaya Pushcha is one of the oldest official natural reserves in Europe. I can't give the sources right now but it was already protected area 600 hundred
by myth_drannon 9y ago
Belovezhskaya Pushcha is one of the oldest official natural reserves in Europe. I can't give the sources right now but it was already protected area 600 hundred years ago. It had a special status since the early times of Russian Empire. Even Nazi Germany during its invasion to USSR recognized the importance of the forest and didn't sent the army through it and kept it intact. Also it is a home to bisons which were extinct in North America and recently some animals were transfered from it for repopulation.
- qbaqbaqba 9y agoBelovezhskaya Pushcha - are you referring to the Belorussian part? Nazi Germans were cutting the forest quite happily, USSR did some heavy damages by draining whatever they could and European bison is quite different than the American one.