BDAR

Minija Landscape Reserve

55.945, 21.533
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Data

Year of establishment

1995 year

Area

1229 he.

Objectives of establishment

The Minija Landscape Reserve protects a picturesque section of the erosive Minija valley, carved by numerous springs, the unique erosive valley of the lower Mišupe River, the confluence of the Mišupe River and the Minija River, the old valley with the present-day Minija River, and the confluence of the Minija River and the Salantas River, the natural oak forests and scrub forests on the slopes of the Minija valley with abundant populations of protected plants such as perennial shiny-eyed Susans, bear's garlic, hollow-leaved rue, and the natural floodplain meadows of the Minija valley with populations of protected plants such as salamanders, male and female cowslips, and blue-eyed susans, European Community importance river streams with grey grouse communities, steppe grasslands, eutrophic tall grasslands, hay meadows, mesophytic grasslands, species-rich coniferous sandhills, herbaceous spruce forests, scrub forests, ravine and slope forests, alluvial forests, non-calcareous springs and vernal pools, siliceous rock outcrops, habitats of springs with forming tuffs, habitats of protected animals, in particular the shrew, the gall, the carbole, the oval swallow, the common shrew, the hammerhead shrike, the wedge-tailed shearwater, the otter, the river otter, the river lamprey, the Dauginci and Sauseri hillforts, the Martynaičiai hillfort with its settlement and the Gintari manor site. The Šatrija Landscape Reserve protects the landscape of moraine massifs with the Pašatrija Mound.