24.01.2014, 14:06h
29th anniversary of the Krka National Park proclamation
On Friday, 24 January 2014, the Public Institute of Krka National Park celebrated the 29th anniversary of the proclamation of the park at the Juraj Šižgorić Library in Šibenik
The programme began at 3 pm with an exhibit of photographs in the Library Gallery, organised in cooperation with the Šibenik Photo-Club, and the awarding of annual passes to all residents of Šibenik-Knin County born on 24 January, the date of the park's proclamation.
On 3:30 pm, the guidebook Speleological Guide to Krka National Park was presented, and the film Terra Incognita about the underground life of Krka National Park was screened.
The Speleological Guide to Krka National Park represents a cross-section of the speleological and biospeleological research conducted throughout the park area from 1956 to 2010, in cooperation with Croatian and Slovenian speleologists and biologists, the Croatian Natural History Museum, Željezničar Mountaineering Society from Zagreb, Sveti Mihovil Mountaineering Club from Šibenik and the Croatian Biospeleological Society from Zagreb.
More than one hundred speleological structures have been researched, and of these, 65 lie within the boundaries of Krka National Park. Among them is the cave Miljacka II (the longest topographically mapped cave in the park area), Stara Jametina pit (deepest known pit), Travertine cave behind the mill, Three-neck pit, and two caves: Oziđana pećina and Jazinka. A total of 129 taxa were recorded in the speleological structures, including new representatives of the cave fauna, and a stable population of olm and certain taxa new to science from the groups of spiders, pseudoscorpions, terrestrial isopods, centipedes and millipedes.
Authors of the guide are: Marija Marguš, Jana Bedek, Tvrtko Dražina, Joso Gracin, Branko Jalžić, Ana Komerički, Marko Lukić, Drago Marguš, Kazimir Miculinić, Goran Mihelčić, Roman Ozimec and Martina Pavlek.
Terra Incognita, a 30 minute film, shows the underground habitats and the animals within them in three basic zones: entrance zones, semi-dark zone and dark zone. The subterranean terrestrial animals are covered based on their level of adaptation to life underground, as troglobionts (organisms that live exclusively in subterranean areas), troglophiles (organisms that live above ground, but are sufficiently adapted to cave conditions that they can also live underground), subtroglophiles (organisms that use caves for a certain part of their live cycle, such as for hibernation, reproduction, etc.), and trogloxenes (organisms that incidentally found their way underground, where they either die or survive until resurfacing again). The aquatic organisms were also covered based on their level of adaptation to life underground, and in line with the names for the terrestrial organisms, the categories are: stigobionts, stigophiles, substigophiles and stigoxenes.
The film shows just a portion of the great diversity of the living world (of the total known 175 species), some of which are very important, rare and endemic taxa, as well as several species that were previously unknown to science.
The film was written by Drago Marguš, and cameramen were Joško Bojić, Mario Krišto, Marko Lukić, Anđelko Novosel and Tonči Rađa.
All residents of Šibenik-Knin County had free entry to Krka National Park on Friday, 24 January 2014.
