Wildlife reserve - The reserve arose within the boundaries of a zero peat deposit in a raised-type swamp Dubatovka to preserve valuable forest-bog ecological systems and habitats of small-leaved bog cranberries, as well as wild animals and wild plants included in the Red Book, says Sergey Golubev, the head of the Smorgon City District Inspectorate of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection. - Its area is 839.5 hectares.
The territory includes forest bog landscapes with areas of upland, lowland and transitional bogs. The peat-bog type of soil, pine-sedge pubescent-sphagnum peat dominates.
The relief is mostly boggy. Among the bogs there are two medium-sized reservoirs, in which there is no vegetation due to high acidity..
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