Triglav National Park ( TNP ; Slovene : Triglavski narodni park, TNP ) is the only national park in Slovenia . It was established in its modern form in 1981 and is located in the northwestern part of the country, respectively the southeastern part of the Alpine massif . Mount Triglav , the highest peak of the Julian Alps , stands almost in the middle of the national park. From there the valleys spread out radially, supplying water to two large river systems with their sources in the Julian Alps: the Soča and the Sava , flowing to the Adriatic and Black Sea , respectively.
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45-768: Is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the first science academy of India established in 1930. He has been awarded fellowships from the national and international institutions including the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development , Nepal the Ministry of Environment and Forests , the Wildlife Institute of India , and the G. B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development - for carrying out research on
60-617: Is an Indian ecologist and professor. His research interests include alpine ecology, conservation biology , indigenous knowledge systems, ethnobotany and medicinal aromatic plants. He is an assistant professor in the faculty area of Ecosystem and Environment Management at the Indian Institute of Forest Management . Kala was born and grew up in Sumari, a small village of Uttarakhand state in India . He studied life sciences at
75-558: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Triglav National Park The proposal for the protection of the Triglav Lakes Valley area was first put forward by the seismologist Albin Belar in 1906 or 1908. However, the proposal was not accepted, as there was no legal base for it and the laws of the time prohibited any restriction of pasture. The strategic basis for
90-873: The Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University , Srinagar before completing a PhD on the ecology and conservation of the Valley of Flowers National Park at the Forest Research Institute (a deemed university ), Dehradun. He has published over 185 research papers and articles and nine books including: The Valley of Flowers: Myth and Reality , Medicinal Plants of Indian Trans-Himalaya , Medicinal Plants of Uttarakhand , and Ecology and Conservation of Valley of Flowers National Park . He writes popular articles regularly in English and Hindi. His decade long studies on
105-725: The Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia such as H, Z, ZR and ND. Some important species such as Aconitum napellus , Cannabis sativa , and Taxus baccata are not allowed to be collected and used as per the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia . Waters in Triglav National Park consist of two watersheds: the Sava River watershed and the Soča River watershed. Many waterfalls can be found in
120-420: The Triglav Lakes Valley area, some 14 km². It was destined to become an Alpine Conservation Park ; however, permanent conservation was not possible at that time. The name Triglavski narodni park was first used in 1926 by Fran Jesenko . In 1961, after many years of effort, the protection was renewed (this time on a permanent basis) and somewhat enlarged, embracing around 20 km². The protected area
135-670: The Valley of Flowers National Park laid the foundation stone to declare the Valley of Flowers a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2005. Kala has surveyed two major traditional systems of Asian therapies - Ayurveda and the traditional Tibetan medicine . He has studied various natural resource management practices evolved by various tribal communities in northwest, northeast and central India, especially in Arunachal Pradesh , Himachal Pradesh , Jammu and Kashmir , Uttarakhand , Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh . Besides
150-606: The National Medicinal Plants Board, the apex body of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare , of India. Kala is on the editorial and advisory board of over a dozen of national and international scientific journals, including Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine , American Journal of Plant Sciences , International Journal of Ecology , Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences , International Journal of Forestry Research , Journal of Biodiversity and African Journal of Plant Sciences . Kala
165-675: The Valley of Flowers, he surveyed many other high altitude protected areas, including Kedarnath Wild Life Sanctuary , Great Himalayan National Park , Hemis National Park , Karakorum Wildlife Sanctuary , Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary , Kibber Wildlife Sanctuary, Pin Valley National Park and Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary . Kala also has surveyed the Alps including the only national park of Slovenia, Triglav National Park . He has served internationally recognized institutions well known for framing and implementing policies, including
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#1732783596073180-649: The park, and most of them are located in the valleys of Soča River and its tributaries. The highest waterfall is Boka Falls (106 m). The Tolmin Gorges on the Tolminka River are located in the national park. The lakes in the park are all of glacial origin. The largest among them is Lake Bohinj . Others are the Triglav Lakes (located in the Triglav Lakes Valley ), Lake Krn, and Lower and Upper Križ Lake. Chandra Prakash Kala Chandra Prakash Kala
195-720: The protection of the area, titled The Memorandum ( Spomenica ), and which explicitly mentioned the proposal of Belar, was submitted to the Provincial Government for Slovenia in 1920. The idea was finally implemented in 1924. Then, at an initiative by the Nature Protection Section of the Slovene Museum Society together with the Slovene Mountaineering Society , a twenty-year lease was taken out on
210-692: Was achieved and the park was given a new concept and expanded to 838 km². In 2010, the park expanded to include the settlement Kneške Ravne ( Tolmin ), according to wishes of its inhabitants, thus the new park area amounts to 880 km², which is 4% of the area of Slovenia. Systematic surveys of plants, especially of ethnobotanically useful species, in Triglav National Park have been carried out by Chandra Prakash Kala and Petra Ratajc covering various microhabitats, elevations, aspects, and terrain types. The park has over fifty-nine species of ethnobotanical values, of these 37 species (which contribute 62%) fall under four major categories of medicinal plants as per
225-430: Was officially designated as Triglav National Park . It was named after Mount Triglav, a symbol of Slovenia and of Slovene character. However, all objectives of a true national park were not attained and for that reason over the next two decades new proposals for expanding and modifying this protection were put forward. Finally, in 1981, Triglav National Park was officially established in the modern form. A rearrangement
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