Třeboň Ramsar sites
(fishponds and peatlands)
the core of the UNESCO Třeboň Biosphere Reserve
Třeboň fishponds are an important cultural wetland created by historical fish farming (14th–17th centuries) with rich fauna and flora associated with hundreds of man-made shallow water bodies.
An exceptional ornithological site – dozens of species of nesting, migratory, and wintering birds, including highly endangered species (e.g., sea eagle, gray crane, reed bunting, night heron, black stork, and many species of diving ducks).
Historically valuable cultural landscape that combines farming with high ecological value.
Třeboň peat bogs are natural wetlands that preserve unique relict communities of wooded and transitional bogs, and poor fens.
Almost all sites have been affected by drainage or peat extraction in the past. Many of them have been at least partially revitalized.
One of the largest accessible sites offers views of the subendemic bog pine (Pinus rotundata) and extensive stands of marsh Labrador tea (Rhododendron tomentosum), which are home to relict butterfly species.
Facility of the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Třeboň
Hundreds of aquatic, marsh, and wetland plants of the temperate zone, as well as selected interesting species from other parts of the world. Several species are rare or specially protected.
The plants are grown in outdoor ponds, pools, and beds; part of the collection is also in greenhouses.
It serves as a base for the study of the ecology, biology, and physiology of aquatic and wetland plants (e.g., carnivorous aquatic plants, pondweeds, water lilies, sedges, cattails, reeds).
It preserves the gene pool of native and endangered species of wetland flora in Central Europe.
It allows students and the public to learn about different types of aquatic plants (submerged, floating, emergent species) and understand how wetland ecosystems function.