Habitat includes extensive reedbeds, wet meadows, peat bogs and wet, coniferous woodland. An important area for small numbers of breeding and staging birds, including the White-tailed sea eagle and Osprey. The site provides habitat for several notable plant species. For these reasons the site was added to the Montreux Record in 1994. Floodplain forests, fishponds and extensive wet meadows subject to fluctuating water levels along the meandering Odra River.
Vegetation includes climax, hardwood forest communities.
Situated along an important bird migration route, the site supports numerous species of staging and breeding birds. Because the river remains unregulated, its natural hydrologic regime persists today. Human activities include recreation, agriculture and intensive fish production. Eutrophication due to substantial concentrations of agricultural runoff, unsuitable agricultural management and intensive fishpond management are the primary threats to the site. A complex of disjunct peatlands, raised and valley bogs and montane and coniferous forest in the Vltava River wetlands.