Mörbylånga - Öland
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Möckleby-Gårdstorp, Naturreservat
- Nature reserve
- County: Kalmar län och Öland
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Description
One of the largest alvar reserves on Stora Alvaret. Here, open grazed alvar alternates with toad fields, wetlands and tree curtains. From the heights in the northern part of the reserve you can look out over the vast alvar. The calcareous soils have been grazed for millennia, which has led to a distinctive plant and animal life. So walk slowly, there is much to discover here!
Fascinating flora
The alvar has a very special flora. Some of the species that grow here are actually native to the tundra in the mountains, such as wormwood, snow lichen and mountain carnation. Others originate from warmer latitudes, such as woolly daffodil, sulphur lichen and goldenrod. And then there are those that only grow on the alvar, such as island sunflower and alvar wormwood.
Rich bird life
For those interested in birds, a visit to the marshes in the eastern part of the reserve is recommended. Here you have the chance to see various waders during spring and early summer. Characteristic species include the ringed plover, snipe, lapwing and redshank. Less common is the red-breasted godwit, a fastidious bird that only nests in the wet meadows if they are kept open by mowing or grazing.
Ancient monuments
In the south is one of Öland's best preserved Iron Age landscapes. Almost 2000 years ago, one of the largest settlements on Stora Alvar emerged here. Remains can still be seen today, in the form of kilometers-long stone strings, some 30 house foundations and low burial mounds. The stone walls line the small marshes, among other things. These fences kept out the grazing animals, as the marshes were harvested for sedges and herbs used as winter feed for the animals.
Activities And Facilities
- Nature reserve
Facts
Year of decision: 1992
Area: 775.9 hectares
Municipality: Mörbylånga
Landowner: Individual
Administrator: Kalmar County Administrative Board
The reserve is located within the World Heritage Site of Southern Öland's cultivated landscape
Directions
The reserve is located northeast of Södra Möckleby. Follow road 136 south towards Ottenby. About 600 meters south of the village of Gettlinge (about 16 km S Mörbylånga) there is a turn-off road with associated parking on the alvar side. You can then walk along the farm road to the reserve and further out on the alvar.
Regulations
In the nature reserve you are not allowed:
- Drive a motorized vehicle.
- Camp more than one night in the same place.
- Bring dogs or other animals that are not on a leash.
- Hunt, kill, capture or harm wild mammals, amphibians, reptiles or birds.
- Remove or damage eggs or nests.
- Deliberately disturbing wildlife.
- Collect loose rocks or remove pieces of bedrock.
- Damage or remove trees, shrubs, mosses and lichens that are growing or dead.
- Use the area for orienteering competitions or training.
- Damaging fencing (for example, fences or barriers).
- Using the area for military exercises.
Full regulations
C. Regulations under Section 10 of the Nature Conservation Act on what the public must observe in the nature conservation area.
Within the area it is forbidden to:
- drive a motorized vehicle
- camping more than one night in the same place
- bring an unleashed dog or other stray pet
- hunt, kill, capture or injure wild mammals, amphibians, reptiles or birds, remove or damage eggs or nests or otherwise disturb wildlife
- collect loose rocks or remove pieces of bedrock
- damaging or removing growing or dead trees, shrubs, bogs and lichens
- organizing orienteering competitions or training for them
- damage fences
- use the area for military exercises.
Contact
Email address
Per Markus Jönsson
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