Kozłowiecki Landscape Park was established in 1990, as one of the links of the Ecological System of Protected Areas in Lublin Voivodeship. The park was designated to protect the largest forest complex in the vicinity of Lublin, which features a series of natural elements that resemble the natural environment. The park area is dominated by mixed forest and mixed woods, in addition, smaller areas of the park feature dry and moist forests, swamp forests, as well as alder forests and riparian forests growing in the stream valleys. Especially noteworthy in the ground cover of the Kozłowiecki Forests are rare species, such as Western Oakfern Mezereons, Martagon Lilies, European Columbines, ivies, Australian Sweetgrasses, Upright Bugles, Bastard Balms, Yellow Meadow Rue and Shining Meadow Rues, Isopyrum thalictroides, Anthericum ramosum, Kashubian Buttercups and Woolly Buttercups, Scouring Rushes, and in the orchid family: the Common Twayblades, Bird’s nest Orchids and Lesser Butterfly Orchids. Many species of peat bog, meadow and aquatic plants are also featured here. In the park, you can encounter the rare Black Storks or Lesser Spotted Eagles. The winged fauna is also represented by the Hoopoes, Great Grey Shrikes, Common Kestrels, Rollers, Black and White-backed Woodpeckers, as well as Collared Flycatchers and European Pied Flycatchers, among others. The waterfowl includes Hen Harriers, Black-necked Grebes, Corn Crakes, Water Rails and Bearded Reedlings. The Kozłowiecki Landscape Park is also a habitat of ungulates, as large numbers of moose (Eurasian elk), deer, fallow deer, roe-deer and wild boar. Furthermore, you can also encounter in the park a European pond turtle, which becomes rarer and rarer in Poland.