Möllegården, Naturreservat

Möllegårdens naturreservat ligger på Österlen. Här finns ingen gård men väl en stor sten - Maglehemsstenen. Det är ett stort flyttblock som isen släpat hit. Stenen ligger majestätiskt placerad på en höjd i reservatets nordvästra del. Möllegården ingår tillsammans med grannreservaten Kumlan Länk till annan webbplats. , Lillehem Länk till annan webbplats. , Maglehem Länk till annan webbplats. och Drakamöllan Länk till annan webbplats. i ett stort sammanhängande naturområde med böljande betesmarker. Den sandiga miljön bidrar till ett unikt växt- och djurliv.

In English

Möllegården Nature Reserve

Möllegården is part of a larger inter-connected area of countryside with rolling pastures, a rich flora and exciting wildlife. It is one of several nature reserves in this unique sand-dominated landscape. The reserves are linked by the River Julebodaån which meanders through the valleys between the sandy hills, surrounded by lush wet and broadleaved woodlands.

15 000 years ago, the melting ice created this hilly, sandy landscape with the glacial erratic rock called Maglehemssten majestically located on the top of a hill in the middle of the Reserve.

The sandy soils were easy to cultivate and have been used as pastures and temporary fields for hundreds of years. The unusual habitat of sandy steppe has been formed by the joint efforts of nature and man.

With the modernization of agriculture, the need for pastures and temporary fields declined. In the middle of the 1900s pine was planted in parts of the Reserve and many of the plants and animals associated with open sandy areas began to disappear.

But things are changing. Within the EU project SandLife, the pine woodland has been removed. To mimic crop rotation, different areas will be ploughed, harrowed and burned on a regular cycle. The winners are the dung beetles, such as Onthophagus nuchicornis, unusual plants, such as small alison and many other sand-loving species.

Regulations for Möllegården visitors

Within Möllegården Nature Reserve it is forbidden to:

• remove, dig, bore, paint or in any other way damage the ground, stones or natural objects,
• camp or park caravans, campers or similar overnight
• light fires,
• during the period 1 April to 30 November ride or lead horses
• cycle other than on roads
• deliberately disturb grazing animals
• bring dogs or other pets unless on a physical leash
• pick, dig up or in any other way damage plants, mosses, lichens and wood-living fungi
• park outside designated parking areas
• introduce or release species alien to the reserve

Furthermore, without written permission from the County Administrative Board, it is forbidden to:

• hold or organise competitions or similar events,
• catch insects, spiders, gastropods or other invertebrate animals other than by netting, hand picking or other selective method which does not destroy their habitat, with subsequent reintroduction within the nature reserve. The requirement for reintroduction does not apply to individual voucher specimens of species which are difficult to identify, on condition that the record is logged in the reporting system Artportalen, or an equivalent national database for threatened species, and that the collection is not contrary to the species protection regulations,