Protected areas in Mosty

Motyčanka nature reserve

This nature reserve was created in 1990 and covers an area of 0.22 hectares. It is a boggy meadow on gently sloping ground at the point where the Moravian-Silesian Beskydy mountains meet the lower-lying land around Jablunkov, and is located at a height of 579–583 m above sea level. The aim of the reserve is to protect the entire wetland ecosystem, which provides a habitat for a range of rare, endangered, protected and common plant and animal species.

Vřesová stráň nature reserve

This nature reserve was established in 1990 and covers 7.8 hectares of wetlands with sedge, heather and alders.

Pod hájenkou Kyčera (‘Under the Kyčera gamekeeper’s lodge’) nature reserve

A small protected area outside the main Beskydy Protected Landscape Area. A peat bog with beech trees.

Filůvka natural monument in Mosty u Jablunkova

In the easternmost part of the Protected Landscape Area of the Beskydy Mountains, in the cadastral area of Mosty u Jablunkova, at the secluded place of Filůvka, the Ministry of the environment of the Czech Republic announced a Natural Monument of Filůvka on 5 August 2016. It is situated on almost 7 hectares and includes meadows and pastures with a mosaic of water-saturated and peaty areas, previously a usual part of the agricultural landscape of the Beskydy Mountains foothills.
At the beginning of a long way to announcing the natural monument, one of the landowners submitted an application for afforestation. The place was visited by Petr Chytil, the botanist of Administration of the Protected Landscape Area of the Beskydy Mountains, who was captivated by the beautiful landscape and also a mass occurrence of certain protected plant species at first glance. He found here e.g. a highly endangered common lousewort, the carnivorous round-leaved sundew or the western march orchid.
Afforestation was out of the question, therefore a cooperation with the owner was agreed and he was offered a contribution to his farming paid from of the Landscape Management Program (LMP). The co-owner, Ing. Ladislav Gavlas, decided to take care of the land on his own and protection of the local environment has become his hobby. So today, not only he looks after the meadows but he also seeks for the stream to get back to the original bed unbent during land improvement in the 1960's. Moreover, he shows the meadow with proud and love to many visitors attracted by the scenic beauty of Filůvka. As the quality of meadows in Filůvka was improving, other rare species such as the corn crake, fire salamander, green tiger beetle or red-backed shrike were being gradually noticed. Therefore a logical thought of announcing Filůvka as the natural monument appeared.