Kamenárka, Štramberk

Kamenárka - a nature monument located in the Czech Republic, in Štramberk.

It is an unused, two -story limestone quarry with a pond, in which a valuable plant robe has developed and rare species of animals live. The protected area includes 4.46 hectares at an altitude of 450-480 m a.s.l. As a nature monument established in 2001. limestone was already mined here in the Middle Ages. Extraction was finally abandoned in 1880. There are numerous fossils in the rock blocks. Fauna is represented by, among others: an ordinary sheet, wood rickeys, a grass frog, green toad, a grassart of an ordinary, masonry lizard, a lizard zwinka, platycleis Albopunctata Grisea or blue gray. In the 1980s, the endemic variety of Apollo - Parnassius Apollo Strambergensis was reintroduced here, previously extinct in the region of the nearby Šipka cave. Flora representatives include Cobidated bristle, spring pentagonist, common village, gray firefighted, iced pearl, alfalfa crumbs, spherical reed, ordinary Żmijiec, without hebd and climbing clematis.