The Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Katowice announces the opening of public consultations on the draft legislation for the establishment of the nature reserve "Park w Reptach". Opinions and comments can be submitted until 23 January 2026.

The consultations include:

• a draft ordinance on the recognition of Park w Reptach as a nature reserve,
• a draft ordinance on making the reserve accessible by designating walking, cycling and horse-riding trails as well as mushroom picking sites,
• a draft ordinance to establish protective tasks for the reserve, including measures such as the restoration of the Drama crossing, bead ponds, the possibility of introducing dogs and recreational use of the meadow area along the River Drama.

The draft legislation has been prepared taking into account requests and comments made at an earlier stage of the work. The park in Repty will invariably remain accessible to walkers, cyclists and tourists visiting the Black Trout Adit. The status of the reserve permanently strengthens the protection of the unique Reptach Forest - a relic of the Silesian Forest - together with its beech habitats and rare animal species of plants and fungi, and delimits the buffer zone around the Park. The aim of protecting the reserve is also to raise the profile and promote the legacy of ore mining, together with the UNESCO attributes inextricably linked with the area's nature and history. The reserve can be explored with a dog along designated paths (including on horseback) - this includes over 14 km of forest roads + all tarmac. A mining underground route is available below its surface.

Full documentation of the draft orders with maps is available in the appendices.

How to take part in the consultation?

1. Read the draft Orders, the Explanatory Memoranda to the Orders and the Annexes.
2. Download and complete the table.
3. Send it by 23 January 2026 to:

• e-mail: sekretariat@katowice.rdos.gov.pl or
• by post to: Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Katowice,
  Grunwaldzki Square 8-10, 40-127 Katowice

Materials available at : LINK