Podyjí National Park ( Czech : Národní park Podyjí ) is a national park in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic . Adjacent to Austria's Thayatal National Park on the border, together they are referred to as the Inter-National park. Podyjí is one of the Czech Republic's four national parks. It protects near-natural forests along the deep Dyje River valley. The well-preserved state of the biome of the park is cited as being unique in Central Europe .
12-693: Podyjí National Park is one of the four national parks of the Czech Republic. It has an area of 63 square kilometres (24 sq mi) and buffer zone of 29 square kilometres (11 sq mi). It was formally declared a national park on 1 July 1991 by government order no. 164/1991. BirdLife International (IBA) has included this park under its criteria C6, covering a larger area of 76.66 square kilometres (29.60 sq mi). Podyjí National Park lies in an elevation range of 534–214 metres (1,752–702 ft). Its habitats include forest, grassland, arable land, shrubland, rocky areas and inland wetlands. The park
24-756: A membership of more than 2.5 million people across 116 country partner organizations , including the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , the Wild Bird Society of Japan , the National Audubon Society , and American Bird Conservancy . BirdLife International has identified 13,000 Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas and is the official International Union for Conservation of Nature 's Red List authority for birds. As of 2015, BirdLife International has established that 1,375 bird species (13% of
36-511: Is drained by the Dyje River , which flows for a length of 40 kilometres (25 mi) through the park in a thickly-forested valley within the Českomoravská vrchovina uplands. The river valley's depth measures up 220 metres (720 ft). Land use has been established for nature conservation and research, forestry and agriculture. Park trails lead to the castle ruins of Nový Hrádek, Hardegg Castle , and Vranov nad Dyjí Chateau . The park's valley
48-484: Is home to 77 species of plants, which include oak woods ( acidophilous and temperate type), hornbeam , beech , and alder . Some of the perennial flowering species are cyclamen , mulleins , and pasque flower . The upper plateau, which was denuded by logging and converted to cultivable land, contains grasslands. Along the riverbeds, reed-beds or willow shrubs are noted. Eighteen species of orchids have been recorded. 152 species of bird have been recorded in
60-660: Is situated in the park. In 2014, the company Znovín Znojmo which owns 70% of the vineyards at Šobes, started efforts to place the area on the list of UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site . Šobes contains approximately 12 hectares of vineyards. BirdLife International BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats . BirdLife International's priorities include preventing extinction of bird species, identifying and safeguarding important sites for birds, maintaining and restoring key bird habitats, and empowering conservationists worldwide. It has
72-825: The Americas, Asia, Europe and Central Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific. The programmes provide the framework for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating conservation work and include the Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas Programme, Marine Programme, Preventing Extinctions Programme, and Flyways Programme. In 2008, the English name of Wild Bird Federation Taiwan was renamed to Chinese Wild Bird Federation in order to comply with BirdLife International's demand, stemming from People's Republic of China 's pressure. Following
84-503: The matter to me directly," Zurita wrote. Correspondence between CWBF and BirdLife International was released by CWBF on 19 September 2020 to demonstrate that CWBF had been negotiating in good faith prior to its removal and was willing to discuss the name change. Bird Conservation International Bird Conservation International is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of BirdLife International . The editor-in-chief
96-472: The opportunity to discuss BirdLife International's demands in its General Assembly meeting, BirdLife International Global Council voted to remove CWBF from its partnership program. BirdLife International CEO Patricia Zurita subsequently issued what Reuters described as a "gag order", directing her staff to not comment publicly on the "sadly public statement" from CWBF. "If you receive any queries regarding this matter, please DO NOT offer comment and instead refer
108-531: The organization's removal from BirdLife International in 2020, the English name was changed to Taiwan Wild Bird Federation (TWBF). In December 2019, BirdLife International asked Taiwan's then named Chinese Wild Bird Federation (CWBF), to address the following issues or risk removal from its partnership program: However, BirdLife International stated that even if CWBF were to address all of its demands, it may still be removed from BirdLife International's partnership program. On 7 September 2020, before CWBF had
120-409: The park. The IBA trigger species recorded are Syrian woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus) and Barred warbler (Sylvia nisoria) . The faunal species recorded consist of 65 species of mammals . There are seven species of reptiles , which include a tree snake and green lizard . Šobes (or Hora Šobes, English: Šobes Hill ), one of the oldest and most renowned vineyard tracks in the Czech Republic,
132-406: The total) are threatened with extinction ( critically endangered , endangered or vulnerable ). BirdLife International publishes a quarterly magazine, BirdLife: The Magazine , which contains recent news and authoritative articles about birds and their conservation, and publishes its official journal Bird Conservation International with Cambridge University Press . BirdLife International
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#1733092526055144-472: Was founded in 1922 as the International Council for Bird Protection by American ornithologists T. Gilbert Pearson and Jean Theodore Delacour . The group was renamed International Committee for Bird Preservation in 1928, International Council for Bird Preservation in 1960, and BirdLife International in 1993. BirdLife International has nine conservation programmes implemented across Africa,
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