What awaits the Belogorshcha peat bog?

Have you visited the Landscape Reserve “Bilogorshcha Peatland”?

We invite you to “walk” among the tall grasses, admire its beauty and learn more about its value and functions by watching our video “What awaits the Bilogorshcha Peatland”.

The Belogorshcha peat bog is a unique place.

This is a large, well-preserved peat bog with a high diversity of rare plants and animals, in a city with a population of over a million inhabitants.

Here you can see a female moose with her calf, grey cranes nest here, a black stork, beavers, and dozens of other Red Book species.

The peat bog cools the city and shapes the climate, fills wells, feeds springs, purifies water and air, and provides an opportunity to enjoy nature in the middle of the city.

But now it is losing water, degrading and overgrown with invasive species, and suffering at the hands of people – garbage is illegally taken here and dry vegetation is set on fire.

Protecting the Belogorshcha peat bog is about supporting environmental safety, preserving biodiversity and water resources.

The NGO “Danube-Carpathian Program” together with the Lviv City Council, with the support of Restore4Life, is implementing a project to restore the territory of the reserve. We are carrying out work to raise the groundwater level.

We will also make visiting the peat bog more pleasant – we will lay wooden platforms and install towers for bird watching.

These priority measures will make the Bilogorshcha peat bog more comfortable for wildlife and for people.
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