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The foothills – the long line of Niederjeseník, the rugged horizon of the Beskydy and Podbeskydy Mountains, the Oder meandering in many meanders, a green meadow belt with the crowns of massive oaks, lime trees and willows, glittering ponds, curly meadow edges, forests hiding the dark eyes of ponds, distant roofs of villages between the fields. With these fleeting images, it would be possible, for example, to characterize the landscape, a landscape of which we have only a few left. The axis of the area is the Oder River, which flows into the PLA as a fast-flowing stream with a gravel bottom. After a few kilometres near Jeseník nad Odra, the current in the Moravian Gate floodplain calms down, the river begins to deepen significantly into the soft alluvial clay and the first of countless meanders appear. Alluvial meadows and ponds are a characteristic and unmistakable feature of the Poodří landscape. They were built on the site of extensive forests during the medieval settlement in the course of the 13th and 14th centuries, when the first settlements were established along the Oder tributaries. Its extent has changed several times in the course of centuries-long history, as evidenced by pond dams, abandoned pond banks or remains of agricultural estates. Meadows and pastures were probably the first artificial crops to replace forest complexes. To this day, a strip of floodplain meadows has been preserved, which stretches along both banks of the Oder River along the entire length of the area. It is the largest system of regularly flooded meadows in the Czech Republic, with an area of more than 2,300 ha. On closer inspection, the entire seemingly uniform meadow complex disintegrates into a colourful mosaic of several types of grassland, which have a different floristic composition depending on moisture and soil conditions.
The Poodří landscape is a landscape that is rarely seen. An unmistakable element of the Pudří, which characterises the landscape of the Oder floodplain, is the scattered greenery. The meadows are crisscrossed by a network of streams and lakes, surrounded by reeds and willows. The landscape is not only rich in flora, but also in fauna. In the surrounding fields you can observe numerous birds, especially birds of prey (wood buzzard, kestrel). Of the mammals, the field is home to the field mouse, the brown hare and the fallow deer can also be seen. Of the nesting wetland and waterfowl species, we can regularly see the grey heron, the great crested grebe and the great goose. Among the ducks, for example, nest nettle nests here. Many bird species live in old tree populations (warbler, white-necked flycatcher). In the local waters, carp and carp are the most important breeding fish.