Pieniny parkiem narodowym

Abstract

PIENINY AS NATIONAL PARK Summary Attempts to make a reserve in the Pieniny area date back to 1921. After a partial repurchasining of the Pieniny region from the private proprietors by the state authorities, the Pieniny National Park has been established. Shortly after that also another, adjacent National Park has been founded, comprising a portion of the Pieniny stretching on the other side of the Czechoslovakian boundary. Thus, this was at that time the first borderland park of such kind in Europe. After the World War II, the Pieniny National Park was reopened in 1954. At present, the area of the park amounts 2231 ha, and is divided into both completely and partly protected parts. Because of a considerable importance of the Pieniny region, in particular of the Dunajec river gorge, a project to build dams on the Dunajec river seems to be very hazardous there. The project of draining off waters of the Dunajec river using drainage adit from Czorsztyn to Tylmanowa, which may destruct the natural Dunajec gorge, is here particularly dangerous.