Třeboňsko
Trpnouzské Blato Nature Reserve
Trpnouzské Blato is the nature reserve located in the districts of České Budějovice and Jindřichův Hradec. It is located in the Třeboňská Basin, 0.5 km east of the village of Hranice and is included in the Třeboňsko PLA. The reserve covers a total area of 104 ha and was declared in 2002. Trpnouzské blato and the Žofinka National Nature Reserve form a vast (total area is 462 ha) and one of the well-preserved peatbog complexes in the Třeboň region, listed as the Wetlands of international importance and protected under the Ramsar Convention. The subject of protection is a unique peatbog complex at the places abandoned after the former peat extraction with the succession stages of various development degrees. It is a variable system of the peat extraction remnants with the peat layer of various heights. Individual owners were extracting the peat in their long and narrow plots until 50´s of the 20th century. A unique endangered and protected peatbog flora is here represented by the bog pine (Pinus rotundata), Labrador tea (Ledum palustre), bog whortleberry (Vaccinium uliginosum), hare’s-tail cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum), cranberry (Oxycoccus palustris), marsh violet (Viola palustris), the round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), long-leaf starwort (Stellaria longifolia), meadow starwort (Stellaria palustris) and stiff clubmoss (Lycopodium annotinum). The rarest fauna species living here is the protected moorland clouded yellow (Colias paleano), a glacial relict depending on the bog whortleberry.
