Important Plant Areas in Slovakia

The IPAs identified in Slovakia. For an
interactive map search the IPA database right hand column).
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Text by Dobromil Galvánek

Slovakia covers 49,000 km² in central Europe and has two biogeographic zones, the Alpine and the Pannonian. Slovakia borders the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Ukraine and has one Centre of Plant Diversity, the Carpathians.

Slovakia’s natural and semi-natural habitats consist mainly of forest, from the large expanses of beech forest in the Carpathians to the Danube flood plain forest and grasslands; from the alpine meadows of the mountains to dry calcareous grasslands, to alluvial and fen meadows. Slovakia also has a high number of endemic and limited range species. Slovakia joined the EU in May 2004 and is also a member of the Council of Europe.

IPA summary statistics

Total number of IPA: 154
Area of IPA (ha): 645,507
No/Area of IPA in Protected Areas (all or part): 118 IPA/488,036 (ha)

IPA national team

National coordinating organisation: Daphne Institute of Applied Ecology

National coordinator: Dobromil Galvánek