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FOREST AND NATURE EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ZAWADZKIE FOREST DISTRICT
In 2004, the Zawadzkie Forest District established the Forest and Nature Chamber and Educational Garden, with additional facilities added in subsequent years. Currently, the Forest and Nature Education Center comprises the Zawadzkie Forest District's Educational Room and Forest and Nature Chamber, with numerous exhibits related to forest management, as well as an exhibition of prepared forest animals in natural settings. The Nature and Forest Chamber and the Forest Arboretum at the Jaźwin forester's lodge in the Zawadzkie Forest District", which in 2011 received a distinction in the competition for the Best Tourist Product in 2011 – the OROT Certificate 2011. In the Forest Arboretum you can see many interesting plant species from all over the world, in particular a rich collection of irises, and in the Nature and Forest Chamber, classes for young people on forest ecology are held. The Summer Forest Educational and Tourist Chamber in the Dębie Forest District (built on the basis of an architecturally interesting wooden barn from 1920), the Nature and Educational Trail
"Nad Małą Panwią" in the Rytwiny Forest District, the Educational and Nature Complex
"Malepartus" in the Dębie Forest District (with an educational trail, a hunting lodge with old trees rhododendrons, the forest surroundings of Mała Panew with a footbridge for pedestrians and cyclists) - the "Świerkle" nature and educational trail near the "Świerkle" camping site
(with 20 boards, benches and a table), from where, following the bank of the Mała Panew river, we reach the kayaking port
and the "Świerkle" rest area), the "Forest School" educational trail in the Kielcza Forest District (with 24 boards, a tourist shelter with benches and tables and a place for
a bonfire), a fire alarm with a viewing platform for visitors.
Forest Park named after Distinguished Foresters of the Zawadzkie Forest District (here, forest tree seedlings were planted by families in memory of deceased foresters. The seedlings were grown from seeds blessed by Pope Benedict XVI during his pilgrimage to Poland on May 26, 2006, during Holy Mass at Marshal Piłsudski Square in Warsaw. Since 2010, a cyclical "Tree Festival" event has been held here.
Representatives of all schools from the administrative area of the Zawadzkie Forest District plant "their" trees and shrubs that enrich the biodiversity of the forests and the food base for birds), the Administrative and Educational Complex in the Zarzecze Forest District, which includes: the Zarzecze Forester's Lodge from 1902 with an interesting architectural structure, the Geological Chamber, the Historical and Hunting Chamber.