Wetlands in all their variety are among the most significant and important natural phenomena of the Carpathian mountain region and its adjacent basins and lowlands, receiving the water flowing from the mountains – the biggest, the longest and the most rugged mountain range of Europe. This region reaches the area of eight states – the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania and Serbia. Its nature values and rarities were summarised in various papers and publications, however, none of these has dealt with especially rich and varied world of cultural expressions of these nations towards the water, rivers, brooks, springs, waterfalls, lakes, peatbogs, marshes, wet grasslands, meadows or woodlands.
Authors: The document has been compiled from material contributed by: Administration of Djerdap National Park, Serbia Leonard Ambróz, Eva Farkašovská, Iveta Chomová, Zuzana Šimková, Mária Ošková – Slovak Museum of Nature Conservation and Speleology Peter Andráš (map), Milan Barlog, Ján Kadlečík, Natália Kubicová, Eva Pietorová, Ivan Šustr, Zuzana Václavová, Milan Zajac – State Nature Conservancy of the Slovak Republic Dagmar Haviarová – SNC SR, Slovak Caves Administration Roxana Ionescu – Ministry of Environment, Romania Adriána Kušíková – Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic Břeněk Michálek – Czech Ornithological Society, Czech Republic Katarína Nádaská – City Hall Archive in Bratislava, Slovakia Bohdan Prots – Danube-Carpathian Programme, Ukraine Libuše Vlasáková – Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic
