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Photo: Jacek Karczmarz, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Visitors should understand that the primeval section of the forest is strictly off limits, open only to scientific expeditions and guided tours. Don't expect to go into the wilderness on your own. Tours begin at 225 zł) and only cover a small, peripheral, part of the forest (~7 km or looping trails at the edges of the forest). There are also tours available that can be done with children. Still quite a striking experience.
Białowieża Forest is a large forest complex and World Heritage Area straddling the border between Poland and Belarus. It is one of the last and the largest remaining parts of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain. The forest is home to more than 800 European bison, Europe's heaviest land animal.
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Rezerwat Pokazowy Żubrów
Show reserve where you can see European bison on a pasture in half-natural environment. It was supposed to renew the population of extinct tarpan horse, but has been only partially successful with engineered horse breeds similar to tarpan. However this reserve had more success with European bison. The local population was recovered from just 22 bisons (of total 90 alive in the world at the end of World War II).