Chapter Kulturtraegers and pristine nature. The vicissitudes of the Bialowieza Forest during the Great War (1914–1918)
Bialowieza Forest is an area of outstanding natural beauty, unique on a global scale. It covers a total area of approximately 1460 km², with 1/3 of the area in Poland and the remaining part in Belarus. Bialowieza Forest is one of the best-preserved, lowland, primeval forests. Bialowieza Forest is ex...
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| description | Bialowieza Forest is an area of outstanding natural beauty, unique on a global scale. It covers a total area of approximately 1460 km², with 1/3 of the area in Poland and the remaining part in Belarus. Bialowieza Forest is one of the best-preserved, lowland, primeval forests. Bialowieza Forest is exceptional for the richness of it’s flora and fauna; it is home the area’s iconic species, the European bison (wisent). The whole area of Bialowieza Forest is protected and has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. In olden Times – Bialowieza Forest was under the rule of Ruthenian and then Lithuanian dukes, and over the next centuries – Polish kings. After the partitions of Poland, it was annexed by Russia. In 1888 it was added as appanage to the private tsar property and became a vast nature reserve and hunting grounds. During WW1, Bialowieza Forest came under German occupation (1915–1918). The occupation authorities called to life a Military Forest Commission, which over-exploited the Forest to cater for the needs of the army and German wartime economy. The occupiers caused huge devastation to the forest count, they felled approximately 5 million m³ worth of timber which was sent to Germany as raw material or processed in the newly-built industrial plants. The animals population of several thousand was decimated, with the European bison nearly hunter to extinction; out of 700 bisons roaming the Forest before the war, only a small fraction remained after the German occupation. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1554162025-03-07T14:13:50Z Chapter Kulturtraegers and pristine nature. The vicissitudes of the Bialowieza Forest during the Great War (1914–1918) Samuś, Paweł Bialowieza Forest is an area of outstanding natural beauty, unique on a global scale. It covers a total area of approximately 1460 km², with 1/3 of the area in Poland and the remaining part in Belarus. Bialowieza Forest is one of the best-preserved, lowland, primeval forests. Bialowieza Forest is exceptional for the richness of it’s flora and fauna; it is home the area’s iconic species, the European bison (wisent). The whole area of Bialowieza Forest is protected and has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. In olden Times – Bialowieza Forest was under the rule of Ruthenian and then Lithuanian dukes, and over the next centuries – Polish kings. After the partitions of Poland, it was annexed by Russia. In 1888 it was added as appanage to the private tsar property and became a vast nature reserve and hunting grounds. During WW1, Bialowieza Forest came under German occupation (1915–1918). The occupation authorities called to life a Military Forest Commission, which over-exploited the Forest to cater for the needs of the army and German wartime economy. The occupiers caused huge devastation to the forest count, they felled approximately 5 million m³ worth of timber which was sent to Germany as raw material or processed in the newly-built industrial plants. The animals population of several thousand was decimated, with the European bison nearly hunter to extinction; out of 700 bisons roaming the Forest before the war, only a small fraction remained after the German occupation. 2025-03-07T14:13:48Z 2025-03-07T14:13:48Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788382200584_841 9788382200584 9788382200577 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/155416 pol image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/250 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8220-057-7.10 Bialowieza Forest is an area of outstanding natural beauty, unique on a global scale. It covers a total area of approximately 1460 km², with 1/3 of the area in Poland and the remaining part in Belarus. Bialowieza Forest is one of the best-preserved, lowland, primeval forests. Bialowieza Forest is exceptional for the richness of it’s flora and fauna; it is home the area’s iconic species, the European bison (wisent). The whole area of Bialowieza Forest is protected and has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. In olden Times – Bialowieza Forest was under the rule of Ruthenian and then Lithuanian dukes, and over the next centuries – Polish kings. After the partitions of Poland, it was annexed by Russia. In 1888 it was added as appanage to the private tsar property and became a vast nature reserve and hunting grounds. During WW1, Bialowieza Forest came under German occupation (1915–1918). The occupation authorities called to life a Military Forest Commission, which over-exploited the Forest to cater for the needs of the army and German wartime economy. The occupiers caused huge devastation to the forest count, they felled approximately 5 million m³ worth of timber which was sent to Germany as raw material or processed in the newly-built industrial plants. The animals population of several thousand was decimated, with the European bison nearly hunter to extinction; out of 700 bisons roaming the Forest before the war, only a small fraction remained after the German occupation. 10.18778/8220-057-7.10 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788382200584 9788382200577 197-223 open access |
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