Tatra National Park, known in Slovakia as TANAP, protects the Slovak side of the High Tatras, the highest part of the Carpathian Mountains. It is a landscape of sharp granite peaks, glacial lakes, valleys and alpine meadows, and it includes Gerlach Peak, at 2,655 meters the highest summit in the Carpathians. The park shelters animals such as brown bears, wolves, lynx, chamois and marmots. A Polish national park protects the northern side of the range, and together they form a transboundary biosphere reserve. Tourism, including hiking, skiing and mountaineering, is highly developed, which creates problems for conservation. The forests were also heavily damaged by a windstorm in 2004.
Before and after
- 9 December 1948Genocide Convention
- 10 December 1948Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 20 December 1948Birth of Abdulrazak Gurnah
- 21 December 1948Birth of Samuel L. Jackson
- 1 January 1949Establishment of Tatra National Park
- 1949Establishment of Mount Kenya National Park
- 1949Creation of assembly language
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- 1949Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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