Čestmír Klos

what is happening in Sumava is unfortunately everywhere.

When habitat is disrupted by  cutting or industrial mowing, the local species cannot survive. In some places, I've seen entire butterfly and dragonfly popuations destroyed where a "nature park" sign was planted.  The area  was healthy and thriving until it got  protected by parks ministry and then suddenly overnight it became  'managed|" and  local habitat and species were wiped out. Is normal.

I have many photos of such things. There is no effort to see what species are there in area and often  species are those listed on European  watchlists and there is virtually no way to recover them. I have seen trees that once had eagle owls and hawks  felled for no  real reason. Tree cutters come along in nesting season and then the  industrial mowers chopp up the nestling on the ground which traumatizes the local birds for weeks on end. It's normal.  Put up a sign, "nature park" and then  destroy the habitat, drive out the  species that might be native there and  then a coot or mallard comes  into  the pond.  mallard isn't exactly wild species.

I am macro phtographer, so my eyes see things that people want to overlook. Sometimes I see so much damage done in an area that I sit down and cry because  there is no longer a dragonfly or lycaenidae for me to shoot--entire species get wiped out effectively. yet the sign, "Nature Park" remains. Sometimes I can't return to an area because it cause so much stress on my heart. I know an area that once had deer, pheasant, partridge, the eagle owl and hawls, but now is "nature park" and  noting remains of the native  animals that once lived there. Is just normal.

I photograph what I can, but brain can't handle it. I see beautiful trees destroyed that are valuable to woodpeckers and  large raptors because of their size, but somebody is greedy for money.

I watched  sapling trees  put out on the ground on the hottest day of the year. they weren't even planted properly.  Their roots exposed and so could not  possibly survive. A couple days later, most of them had vanished in thin air. Tree mafia was clearly very busy. yet the money  for the trees probably came form some source and yet somebody else carried them off and now either has magnificent  garden or  great  tree farm.

So the abuse  is unending and so is my pain when i see it. I live in the shadows of this world.  Like the vanishing dragonfly and lycaenidae, I have been mown down...

I am afraid to speak and do not have connections.