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The Seaside Landscape Park (SLP) was established in January 1978 as a fourth landscape park in Poland.Its area amounts to 18804 ha (hectares), the protection zone to 17540 ha and the marine part of SLP includes nearly two third of its territory.
The area of the landscape park is protected because of the natural, historical and cultural as well as tourist values which has been defined by the Voivodship authorities.
There are many dynamic, natural land-ocean interactions in the coastal zone. These processes are especially visible on the Hel Peninsula (coastal erosion) and at the cliffs in Jastrzebia Gora (which are falling down). The South Baltic Sea coastline is composed of several different types of coastland: cliffs, dunes, wetlands and sandbars.
The Inner Puck Bay, that has been in borders of SLP since its establishment, creates the good conditions for the development of varied, rich communities of marine flora and fauna.
There are 13 nature reserves incorporated in the park and its protection zone. They cover 1321 ha, which is almost 18% of the terrestrial part of the park. Nature, culture and landscape values as well as scientific ones underline the unique character of the park in the range of the whole country.
The office of the Seaside Landscape Park is located in Wladyslawowo. It acts on behalf of the regional representative of the local goverment in giving opinions on projects in the field of nature protection and their compatibility with the environmental policy.
There are 6 permament workers in the office and a few people of the temporary staff. The park provides ecological education (so called "Blue School"), which includes lectures in the education centre in the main building and the field sessions.
The staff from SLP, participating in COSA belongs to the working group which will implement the scientific output of COSA into the monitoring programms and coastal management.
Contact: znpk@wp.pl
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