Dunaszentgyörgy Bog Forest Nature Reserve

Before the period of river regulation, it was a real swampy, aquatic world for most of the year. Today, it is bordered by two major canals: the Csámpa stream and the Dunaszentgyörgy side-canal, these streams regulating its water regime and water amounts. The vegetation of the area is a natural mosaic of canal-side alder galleries, patches of tall sedge – purple moor grass association, wooded pastures, willow marshes and bogs, reed beds, marsh tall weed associations, and tall grass hayfields. Due to the diversity of the habitats, the flora is also very rich, with 17 protected plant species found so far. The most valuable of these are the water violet, the marsh fern, the black hawthorn and the small-flowered thistle. There is also a significant number of wetland amphibians (e.g. Danube newt, common spadefoot, moor frog, green toad) and reptiles (e.g. smooth snake, pond terrapin, sand lizard, green lizard). The strictly protected corncrake and saker falcon also breed in the area, and the first pair of nesting black storks was recorded in 2011.
The natural vegetation of the Danube valley has become substantially reduced, making the preservation of the bog forest an extremely high conservation priority. In addition, the area is part of the Natura 2000 network and the Lower Danube Green Corridor. Today the Sárköz region is characterised almost exclusively by arable lands under agricultural management, the bog forest thus functioning as an outstanding last green island in the region.
Declared to be protected: 6/2012. (II. 21.) VM decree
Size of the protected area: 332 ha