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The American evaluates the negative and the positive sides of the present ecological situation in Poland. According to him if Poland took up the programmes ot the protection of environment, it would be easier for this country to get foreign economic aid.
In a comprehensive interview with the substitute of the head of the province of Bielsko the problems concerning the starting of the construction of a dam on the Skawa River in the Beskids are discussed. These problems involve, among others, difficulties connected with the eviction of the Inhabitants from the area ot the future reservoir, the building of the sewage treatment plant in the protective...
Taking as an example the monumental granaries at Kazimierz Dolny on the Vistula River, the author proves that the traditional range of the work on the preservation of the monumental buildings should be enlarged. Namely, according to the destruction degree of the given objects as well as to the changing utilization functions the need to rebuild and econstruct many of them becomes evident.
The existance of aurochs is inseparably connected with the Białowieża Forest. The legal protection of aurochs was introduced in Poland as early as in the 16th century when this animal started to be a rare one. Unfortunately, all the aurochs living in freedom were killed during the First World War. Owing to the action undertaken by the Polish scientists in the twenties and thirties it was possible...
No cost-benefit study has been made in the sulphur industry. Therefore the real costs of mining of this raw material together with the social costs which include the ecological ones are not known. Meanwhile the latter costs are very high and they include, among others, the degradation of soils under the dumping grounds, pollution of surface and underground waters, air pollution, degradation of natural...
The only chance to save nature in the Bieszczady Mountains is to form as quickly as possible a large national park in this region. This park should contain the areas adjoining the borders of three states: Poland, the USRR and Czechoslovakia. The efforts to create such an international park have already lasted for 20 years. Meanwhile, the grounds foreseen to be protected are exploited by forestry and...
The Krzyżtopór castle which was built in the 17th century belongs to the most splendid Polish buildings of the defensive and palatial character. The detailed history of the castle is described together with its architecture, emphasizing its defensive elements (bastions, towers). The castle was famous for its design which accounted for the principles of the division of time (4 towers, 12 large halls,...
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