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ŠUMARSKI LIST 3-4/2002 str. 59     <-- 59 -->        PDF

I. Tolić: LJEPOTU I BOGATSTVO EKOSUSTAVA HRVATSKOG JADRANA TREBA OČUVATI Šumarski list br. 3- 4, CXXVI (2002), 165-173
SUMMARY: The Republic of Croatia, a small maritime country, is renowned
for its diversity and natural beauty. These range from the Adriatic Sea
with a long string of islands and islets, the characteristic Dinaric mountain
range, the forests of Gorski Kotar, the picturesque Slavonian flat lands and oak


forests, the osiers along the rivers to the green hills of Croatian Zagorje. Particular
care should be paid to all this natural wealth to protect its beauty.
Within this framework, the author of this article particularly wishes to emphasise
the beauty and richness of the ecosystem of the Croatian Adriatic with its
multitude of karst phenomena and the beauty of the coast oflstria, the Croatian
Littoral and Dalmatia, adorned with endemic plant and animal species.


The natural resources of these regions have never been regarded by the
local population as dead capital, but have been used and preserved with prudence
and love. Yet, being exposed to turbulent historical events, the people
were sometimes forced, in order to satisfy their needs and those of foreign occupiers,
to over-utilise their wealth and change its original appearance. In the
Adriatic region, it was the forests in particular that suffered most, which left
indelible marks in the space. Forests are the main element of biological diversity,
landscape, cleanliness of air, water and soil that make life in these regions
pleasant and comfortable. These forests are now an inseparable part of
Croatian forests and represent the biggest renewable natural resource of
Croatia. High pressure for building infrastructure and other facilities in the
Adriatic area requires a wise, prudent and far-sighted answer. Misguided treatments
in the space, and particularly in the forest organism, which imparts a
unique physiognomy to the Adriatic-karst area, lead to a chain reaction of
numerous other indirect changes that leave permanently harmful traces on the
landscape and the plant and animal world of land, rivers and the sea.


Key words: Adriatic, islands, coast, karst, karst phenomena, rivers,
ground water, soil, flora, plant communities, fauna, climate, ecosystem, tourism,
fires, energy, biomass, wind, windmills, solar energy, ecology