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Institute of Nature Conservation PAS

The Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy Sciences in Krakow is a specialised scientific institution for nature conservation, one of the few of its kind in Europe.

The Institute carries out research in the fields of ecology, conservation biology, and geology.

The main task of the Institute of Nature Conservation is to create the scientific basis for modern nature conservation and environmental protection.

The Institute’s work is centered around two integrating issues: ‘Prospects for protection of the natural heritage through sustainable development’ and ‘Protection and conservation of the natural (biological and geological) biodiversity of Poland’. Those issues are studied on species, population and ecosystem levels.

The Institute’s mission is to acquire scientific knowledge and implement it in practical conservation of nature, to document biological diversity and the threats to it, and to carry out environmental education.

Brief history:

December 1919 - Provisional State Commission for Nature Protection [Tymczasowa Państwowa Komisja Ochrony Przyrody], from February 1920 it was chaired by Prof. Władysław Szafer (1886-1970);
1925 - Transformation of the Commission into the State Council for Nature Conservation [Państwowa Rada Ochrony Przyrody], and at the same time into the Office of the Delegate of the Minister of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment for Nature Conservation [Biuro Delegata Ministra Wyznań Religijnych i Oświecenia Publicznego do Spraw Ochrony Przyrody], which functioned until September 1939 and in the years 1946-1949;
1949 - transformation of the Office into the Committee for Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences [Komitet Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności];
December 1952 - transformation of the Committee into a scientific institution, named the Department of Nature Conservation (ZOP, Zakład Ochrony Przyrody);
January 1953 - Department of Nature Conservation (ZOP) becomes a research unit of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Organiser and first Director (1952-1960) - Prof. Władysław Szafer;
1978 - transformation of ZOP into Department of Nature Conservation and Natural Resources of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ZOPiZN PAN, Zakład Ochrony Przyrody i Zasobów Naturalnych PAN);
since 1993 - transformation of ZOPiZN PAN into the Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences.

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Characteristics and map of plant communities of the Pieniny National Park

Studia Naturae No. 49 (2004)

Bodziarczyk, Jan

2004

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Let’s protect Our Indigenous Nature Vol. 52 issue 4 (1996)

The Black Stork population as a subject of the Second International Conference

Profus, Piotr Czuchnowski, Robert

1996

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Let’s protect Our Indigenous Nature Vol. 51 issue 2 (1995)

Ciconia nigra in Cracow voivodeship

Czuchnowski, Robert.

1995

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Let’s protect Our Indigenous Nature Vol. 51 issue 2 (1995)

Status of the breeding population of the Black Stork Ciconia nigra in Europe

Profus, Piotr

1995

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Let’s protect Our Indigenous Nature Vol. 51 issue 2 (1995)

Population of the Black Stork Ciconia nigra in the district of Radom in 1981-1994

Kurowski, Mieczysław Konofalski, Marek Czuchnowski, Robert. Profus, Piotr

1995

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Let’s protect Our Indigenous Nature Vol. 49 issue 4 (1993)

The Ural owl, Strix uralensis, in Niepołomice Forest in 1992

Czuchnowski, Robert.

1993

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Przyroda Pienin w obliczu zmian

Zarys fizjografii Pienin

Birkenmajer, Krzysztof

1982

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Przyroda Ojcowskiego Parku Narodowego

Klimat

Klein, Jan

1977

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Przyroda Ojcowskiego Parku Narodowego

Przyroda nieożywiona Ojcowskiego Parku Narodowego

Gradziński, Ryszard

1977

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Przyroda Ojcowskiego Parku Narodowego

Przyroda nieożywiona Ojcowskiego Parku Narodowego

Alexandrowicz, Zofia Alexandrowicz, Stefan Witold

1977

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Sezonowe i dobowe zmiany pH, alkaliczności i tlenu rozpuszczonego w wodzie stawów rybnych

Bombówna, Maria

1956

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Meso- and microclimate of the Ojców National Park

Klein, Jan

1974

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Ecological studies of the International Biological Programme in the Niepołomice Forest, Part II

The local climate of Vistula Valley in the northern part of the Niepołomice Forest

Klein, Jan

1978

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The Lipówka nature reserve in the Niepołomice Forest

Phytoclimatic conditions in the Lipówka nature reserve in the Niepołomice Forest

Klein, Jan

1978

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Ecosystems Studies in a Beech Forest and Meadow in the Ojców National Park

The phytoclimatic character of the investigated plots in relation to mesoclimatic conditions of Ojców

Klein, Jan

1967

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Gospodarka rybacka w jeziorach

Szczerbowski, Jan A.

2001

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Ecosystems Studies in a Beech Forest and Meadow in the Ojców National Park

Floristic composition, structure, and productivity of woody plants in a beech stand Fagetum carpaticum

Myczkowski, Stefan

1967

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Protection of Nature Ann. 43 (1980)

Dyduch, Anna

1980

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Molluscs of Gardno Lake and necessity of their protection

Dyduch, Anna Falniowski, Andrzej

1979

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Ochrona przyrody - czym jest?

Dyduch-Falniowska, Anna

1992

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Głowaciński, Zbigniew

2007

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Zając, Katarzyna

2007

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Teoria biogeografii wysp, jej założenia i zastosowania w ochronie przyrody

Głowaciński, Zbigniew

2007

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Ważne siedlisko rozrodcze żaby zwinki Rana dalmatina i innych płazów na terenie Tarnowa

Klich, Sabina Klich, Mariusz

2016

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Ichtiofauna i status ekologiczny wód Wisły, Raby, Dunajca i Wisłoki

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Jelonek, Marek Żurek, Roman

2006

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Carpathian flysch fossils - the arguments about conservation

Gonera, Małgorzata

1997

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Crystal Caves in the Wieliczka Salt Mine

2. Geological outline of Wieliczka salt deposit

Alexandrowicz, Zofia

2000

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Wartość środowiska przyrodniczego Krakowa i okolic

Środowisko geograficzne Wyżyny Krakowsko-Częstochowskiej

Stawowczyk, Aneta

2007

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Ichtiofauna i status ekologiczny wód Wisły, Raby, Dunajca i Wisłoki

Teren badań

Żurek, Roman

2006

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Koza (Cobitis taenia L.) z rzeki Wschodniej

Skóra, Stanisław

1966

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Nowe stanowiska i występowanie soplówki jeżowatej Hericium erinaceus w Polsce

Sikora, Arkadiusz Neubauer, Grzegorz

2015

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Integralna Ochrona Przyrody

Przyroda - pojęcie oczywiste?

Polak, Paweł

2007

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Protection of Nature Ann. 32 (1967)

Lower Silesian basalts as monuments of inanimate nature

Birkenmajer, Krzysztof

1967

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Gleby gospodarstw stawowych dorzecza Górnej Wisły

Pasternak, Kazimierz

1959

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Red list of threatened animals in Poland

Gastropoda aquatica Aquatic gastropods

Piechocki, Andrzej (1938– )

2002

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The water reservoir of "Wonieść" as a refuge area of aquatic birds and marsh fowl

Kuźniak, Stanisław Lorek, Grzegorz

1991

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Zespoły leśne Gorców

Medwecka-Kornaś, Anna

1955

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The brown bear Ursus arctos L. in the Polish part of the Carpathians

Jakubiec, Zbigniew

2001

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Nowe stanowisko gniewosza plamistego Coronella austiaca na Ziemi Kłodzkiej

Kaczmarski, Mikołaj Kolenda, Krzysztof Pabijan, Maciej

2015

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Red list of threatened animals in Poland

Gastropoda terrestria Terrestrial gastropods

Wiktor, Andrzej Riedel, Adolf (1930–2010)

2002

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