page_title: Gryżyna Landscape Park
section_title: The fauna of Gryżyński Landscape Park
hierarchical_section_title: Gryżyna Landscape Park / The fauna of Gryżyński Landscape Park
caption_attribution_description: English: The cataract on the river Gryżynka
context_page_description: Gryżyna Landscape Park is a protected area in western Poland, established in 1996, covering an area of 27.55 square kilometres.
  The Park lies within Lubusz Voivodeship: in Krosno Odrzańskie County, Świebodzin County and Zielona Góra County. It takes its name from the village of Gryżyna in Gmina Bytnica.
  Gryżyński Landscape Park is covered with forests in 86.6%, with surface waters in 6.6% and in 2.6% with pastures and meadows and marshy wasteland. The park is situated in the Warsaw-Berlin ice-marginal-valley and it constitutes a good example of postglacial relief with a great variety of postglacial forms such as vales, eskers and ravines, which contrast with sander plains around the park. The park is extended from the village Gryżyna in the north to the village Szklarka Radnicka in the south. It is 2-3 kilometers wide and 12.5 kilometers long and the vale of Gryżyna is its axis. The western vale constitutes the riverbed for Gryżyński Potok. This peat bog area is cut with ravines with steep slopes and huge amount of slope springs. In the south there are a few postglacial lakes and the biggest is the lake Jelito, which is 36.6 meters deep and covers the area of 49.9 hectares.
context_section_description: The diverse forms of postglacial relief serve as a shelter for plenty of animal species. The park is the habitat of a stag beetle. During June and July one can see the beetles in the near of oaks. Other insects are a European pine processionary  and a moaning cloak – the biggest butterfly in Poland.
  A lot of places reveal the trace of beavers, which were introduced to the park in 1986. In the same places otters are found. Another mammals characteristic for the park are red and roe deer, a red fox, a wild boar, a raccoon dog, a European polecat, a beech marten and a European badger.
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caption: The cataracts on the river Gryżynka
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