Tůně u Hajské is natural monument close to the town
Strakonice
Strakonice (; ) is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 22,000 inhabitants.
Administrative division
Strakonice consists of eight municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):
*Strakonice ...
in Strakonice District, Czech Republic. The area is protected due to large amount of small pools in
Otava River floodplain
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river. Floodplains stretch from the banks of a river channel to the base of the enclosing valley, and experience flooding during periods of high Discharge (hydrolog ...
which were formed as a result of
gold mining
Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining.
Historically, mining gold from Alluvium, alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. The expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface has led to mor ...
in the
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ...
. These ponds are containing habitat of critically endangered aquatic plant ''
Hottonia palustris'' and many representatives of
amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniote, anamniotic, tetrapod, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class (biology), class Amphibia. In its broadest sense, it is a paraphyletic group encompassing all Tetrapod, tetrapods, but excl ...
species as ''
Bufo bufo
The common toad, European toad, or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the toad (''Bufo bufo'', from Latin ''bufo'' "toad"), is a toad found throughout most of Europe (with the exception of Ireland, Iceland, parts of Scandinavia, and some Medi ...
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Bufo viridis
The European green toad (''Bufotes viridis'') is a species of true toad found in steppes, mountainous areas, semi-deserts, urban areas and other habitats in mainland Europe, ranging from far eastern France and Denmark to the Balkans, Western Ru ...
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Bombina bombina
The European fire-bellied toad (''Bombina bombina'') is a species of fire-bellied toad native to eastern parts of mainland Europe, where it can be found near waterbodies such as ponds and marshes. It is known for its red colored belly used to wa ...
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Hyla arborea
The European tree frog (''Hyla arborea'') is a small tree frog. As traditionally defined, it was found throughout much of Europe, Asia and northern Africa, but based on molecular genetic and other data several populations formerly included in it ...
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Pelophylax esculentus
The edible frog (''Pelophylax'' klepton, kl. ''esculentus'') is a Hybrid (biology), hybrid species of common European frog, also known as the common water frog or green frog (however, this latter term is also used for the North American species ...
'' and ''
Rana ridibunda''.
Nature reserves in the Czech Republic
Protected areas in the Strakonice District
1985 establishments in Czechoslovakia
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