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Czech Republic: Prokop Valley Revival

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Prokop Valley

The Action Day

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Original announcement of the event on this website (April 2010)


Prokop Valley

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The Action Day

(Phylloscopus collybita) and European robins (Erithacus rubecula)(Phoenicurus phoenicurus) surely belongs to the highlights of the Czech action day.


Volunteers from the Botanic Garden of the Charles University led by the professors couple Vera and Lubomir Hroudovi supervised a botanical workshop for children and their parents. The kids learned how to recognize common Czech weeds and blossoms present in the Prokop Valley and broader surroundings. They also guessed names of the herbs through a smell test. Mums and dads joined guided excursions to the foots of Prokop Valley limestone cliffs, the domicile of indigenous Festuca valesiaca, F. rupicola, Stipa pennata, Sesleria caeruleaAster linosyris will disappear within a few decades.


The zoologists led by Mgr. Michal Fokt demonstrated evidence of rodents by their droppings. Let us mention for example the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus). Thanks to the unexpectedly warm day they could also report a concentration of the butterflies Meleagria daphnis and its indigenous variant, claimed by some local patriots to be a separate species. Beautiful swallowtail (Papilio machaon), one of the biggest Czech butterflies, visited the area of the base camp. The local endemic snail Bulgarica nitidos(Onthophagus vittulus)


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Members of the Action Day

  1. Botanical section: Mgr. Vra Hroudov from the Botanical Garden of Nature Science Faculty of the Charles University and RNDr. Lubomr Hrouda CSc. (professor at Charles University)
  2. Zoology section: Mgr. Michael Fokt (zoologist and photographer)
  3. Ornithology: RNDr. Jan Reznicek, Ph.D. (member of the Czech Society for Ornithology and professor at Charles University)
  4. Paleontology: Radek Labua (member of the Palaia Society; National Museum in Prague)
  5. Nature protection: Josef Matouek (member of the Society for protection of Prokop and Daleje Valley)

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