Data Zone
Country/territory: Poland
IBA Criteria met: C6 (2010)
For more information about IBA criteria please click here
Area: 62,950 ha
Protection status:
| Most recent IBA monitoring assessment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of assessment | Threat score (pressure) | Condition score (state) | Action score (response) |
| 2009 | very high | favourable | low |
| For more information about IBA monitoring please click here | |||
Site description
The north-western part of Solska forest. Wet soils cover half of the area, which is drained by many natural watercourses, channels and ditches. Forest vegetation is dense and species-rich, dominated in places by pine Pinus, fir Abies, spruce Picea, oak Quercus, beech Fagus, ash Fraxinus and alder Alnus. Many stands have a natural character with some old-growth trees. Raised bogs and transitional mires occur in areas with little water flow, and were used in the last century for fish-ponds. There are 150 such former ponds, each with an area of 10-50 ha and a varying amount of plant cover.
Key biodiversity
Breeding species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria: Aythya nyroca (2-3 pairs), Crex crex.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2019) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Janów forests. Downloaded from
http://www.birdlife.org on 18/10/2019.
