The first report about beavers |
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Our professor Caltíková has remembered from her schooldays, that beavers disappeared long time ago. Therefore she was very surprised because her former colleague a passionate hunter said, that beavers are breeding on the western part of the Slovakia. She has remembered this report when we started to think about topics on which we will work in the Socrates program. She told us the name of man we heard the name of the person who knows about beavers. So we went to visit him. His name is Mgr. Pavol Benca a former teacher at our school. Nowadays he is a director at primary school in Vysoká pri Morave. This village is situated on the borderland between Slovakia and Austria. We were attracted by a pontoon bridge to Marachegg, which joins two countries. In past during the communism people from Vysoká pri Morave could speak through the bed of the river with the Austrians but it was allowed to visit them. Nowadays they arrange shows and festivals together. Now there is a nice cycling path on the place of the former border. Here you can see beavers directly from the bicycle. This area is a part of cycle-tourist path called Devín-Heinburg.
PB: Yes, in our protected zone you can find the black beaver and the black stork. We have got a lot of oak woods and mushrooms. Sands and the meadow forests are full of waterfowl, paludal sorts of birds and insects. In this area lives a noble paludal tortoise. We organize: The day of storks and lot of tourists visit this occasion.
PB: According to information of my well- known friend, I told them that one college from Russia brought a pair of beavers to Slovakia.
PB: Within one day they can cause a stoppage in a canal, they destroy all soft woods in the surrounding…
PB: Definitely it is necessary to adjust number of them. In past people were hunted beavers because of the fur and meat, now they are strictly protected.
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Update 11. november 2004 |
