EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

2000 14 . Following media coverage increased the awareness of primeval forests in Slovakia
from 10 to some 70 %according to a poll {Pichler, Soroková 2005).
Fig. 6: HRH The Prince of Wales visits
A Carpathian Primeval Forest in
Slovakia
The virgin forests are the subject of the complex study held by the Ukrainian and foreign
biologists. The Scientific Department of the CBR intensively co-operate with the Lviv and
Uzhgorod National Universities, Precarpathian National University (Ivano-Frankivsk),
Kholodnyi Institute of Botany and Shmalhausen Institute of Zoology of the Ukrainian
National Academy of Sciences (both in Kiev), State Nature Museum of the Ukrainian
Academy of Sciences (Lviv), Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Mountain Forestry
(Ivano-Frankivsk), Federal Institute of Mountain, Snow and Landscape Investigation (WSL –
Birmensdorf, Switzerland), Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry (Brno, Czech
Republic), and some others.
The Scientific Department of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve conducts permanent
detailed study of the cluster, and the data on the Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh massif are available in
the numerous papers and thesises published in the scientific journals, located on the web-sites
of the scientific-research institutions, and also in the “Chronicles of Nature” of the CBR.
The data on the “Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh” cluster are in the numerous booklets,
guidebooks, brochures, films and so on, e. g. a very valuable book “Virgin Forests in the
Centre of Europe”. Guidebook about Forests of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve” was
published by the Scientific Department of the CBR together with the biologists of the Swiss
Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Investigation (WSL) in 2003 in Ukrainian
and German.
14 “During his first stop on his two-day tour of the Carpathian mountain region he strolled through a primeval
forest, where he was then presented fujara, a musical instrument favored by Carpathian shepherds for 800
years.” (a typical headline from newspapers published immediately after his visit).
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