Pyhä-Hakki National Park
Coordinates: 62 ° 50 ′ 44 ″ N , 25 ° 28 ′ 21 ″ E
The Pyhä-Häkki National Park (Finnish: Pyhä-Häkin kansallispuisto ) is located in the municipality of Saarijärvi in central Finland .
The national park was created in 1956, expanded in 1982 and today covers an area of around 12 km². Parts of the landscape were placed under protection as early as 1912, the plans for the establishment of the national park were initiated in the 1930s, but were delayed by the outbreak of the Second World War.
The national park consists of roughly equal parts of moorland and forest areas. Some of the last virgin forests in Central Finland are of particular importance ; the vegetation is dominated by old pines and spruces. The oldest tree in the park, a nearly 500-year-old pine with a height of 26 meters and a trunk diameter of 89 cm, was declared dead in 2004. Large mammals are rarely found in the national park; Since the vegetation hardly offers any attractive food to elk, they are rare in this area, and there are no large hunters such as wolves or bears. Woodpeckers and owls are particularly numerous among the birds.
Web links
- outdoors.fi Pyhä-Häkki (Finnish Forest Service website)
- World Database on Protected Areas - Pyhä-Häkki National Park (English)