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Czech president v's Environmentalists over new ski centres in Sumava
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President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic has called on South Bohemian politicians to be more militant in pushing through the construction of new skiing complexes in the local Sumava mountains. The President, a keen downhill skier, gave his support for the new centres while visiting the area this weekend. However, environmentalists strongly oppose their construction, as the mountains are home to rare species of animals and plants... some of which have been included in the Natura 2000 EU programme.

In December 1963, the Bohemian forest was declared the 'Sumava Protected Landscape Area' and was one of the largest protected areas in Czechoslovakia at the time at 1,630 square km. Later, after the establishment of the Sumava National Park, the protected area was reduced to 690 square km. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), this Park is one of Europe’s worst examples of bad practice inside a protected area.

The WWF claims that the area comprising Sumava National Park, the German National Park 'Bayerischer Wald' and the Austrian part of the Sumava Mountains, shapes the most extensive continuous forest area in Central Europe and contains fragments of old-growth forests that are the last of its kind in the region.

It's just that skiing's really good though snowHead

For more info:
http://www.praguemonitor.com/ctk/?story_id=w35424i20060626;story=Klaus-supports-construction-of-new-skiing-centres-in-Sumava

http://www.tsjechoreizen.nl/prague/skiing/bohemianforest.htm
http://www.jiznicechy.org/en/prir/npsumava.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/life/natura2000.htm
http://www.wwf.org.uk/filelibrary/pdf/stateeuropeforests.pdf
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