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Background A range of peat bog habitat types in two Natura 2000 network sites in the Lubelskie and Podkarpackie provinces of eastern Poland – Lasy Janowskie and Uroczyska Lasów Janowskich – require protection under the Habitats Directive. These habitats and the species they contain are under threat as a result of the expansion of invasive trees and s ...

Background The vast majority of the semi-natural dry grasslands (Festuco brometalia) that occur in Poland – listed in Annex II of the Habitats Directive – are conserved mainly thanks to extensive agriculture – for the most part, grazing, mowing or burning. As in other areas of Europe, such land use patterns are now less profitable. This has resulted ...