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Moses Spring – Emperor's Stone
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St. Vitus Guild educational trail reopens after 13 years
A new education trail inaugurated at Michlova Huť in the Protected Landscape Area of the Bohemian Forest (Šumava)
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NET4GAS pursues a responsible policy aimed at protecting nature and the environment with respect to current and future generations. This principle not only underlies the company’s responsible entrepreneurship in gas transmission but is also the basis for its long-term strategy of corporate philanthropy and sponsorship, which has been implemented under the programme NET4GAS Closer to Nature since 2007. NET4GAS has been systematically providing long-term support to projects where a major aspect of sustainable development is expressed by precisely that motto – “Closer to Nature” – and is one of the largest corporate donors in the field of nature conservation in the Czech Republic.
2015 award for a large company
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Czech Union for Nature Conservation
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is a robust monoecious broad-leaved tree that grows up to 25 m. It has a massive, arched, sometimes irregular treetop. The trunk of hornbeam is covered in grey smooth bark, its branches in shiny brown. It blooms from April, the male inflorescence comprises of up to 5 cm long catkins, bunchy female catkins with trilobate bracteal envelopes grow on annual shoots. European hornbeam fruit is a nut in trilobate bracteal envelope. The plant grows well in groves and mixed forests in lower locations.
