Jällabjär

Welcome to Jällabjär Nature Reserve

Marked trails lead you through a varied, ancient, grazed landscape, through lush woodlands and up an ancient volcano. The pasture is full of bushes, old, open-grown oak and beech trees, and lots of apple trees. Furthest to the south, there are tables and benches, and the Skåneleden Trail shelter with a barbeque area.

When you see the top of Jällabjär rise above the surroundings, you can almost imagine the volcano that some 190 million years ago spewed out glowing lava, smoke, and ash.

Today, the woodland has closed in around the top of the extinct volcano, but you can see remains from historic generations’ agriculture in the form of stone walls and cairns. Some of the old trees have extensive crowns – they grew up in an open landscape where they could stretch out their branches. Unusual lichens and fungi grow on these old trees, and birds and bats can nest in their hollows.

If you visit the pasture in May, you will be greeted by flowering apple trees andhawthorns. Heather, harebells, and more unusual herbs, such as leopard’s bane and bugle grow here. Flowering trees and bushes that also provide shelter, attract both insects and birds. Here you might see a black-veined white butterfly fluttering by orhear the clear song of the lesser whitethroat from inside a bush.

Regulations

Within Jällabjär Nature Reserve it is forbidden to:

• remove, dig, bore, paint, or in any other way damage the ground, cliffs, stones, stone walls, natural objects, or archaeological remains,
• camp or set up equipment for sleeping overnight, other than in designated places for more than 48 hours,
• park up a caravan, camper van, or equivalent between the hours of midnight and five am,
• light a fire/barbeque except with firewood or charcoal you have brought or that is provided, other than in the designated places. The use of camping stoves is permitted in the Nature Reserve,
• cycle other than on the roads,
• horseride/drive with a horse,
• bring a dog that is not physically held on a lead,
• remove dead wood, break branches, fell or in any other way damage living or dead trees and bushes,
• put out or up notices, plaques, signs, posters, or equivalent.
  
  Without permission from the County Administrative Board, it is also forbidden to:
  
• catch insects, spiders, snails, or other invertebrates other than with nets, by hand, or other selective methods, and which does not destroy the animals’ habitat, and with subsequent re-release within the nature reserve, *
• collect mosses, lichens, or wood-living fungi, *
• organise competitions, training, camps, or equivalent activities.
  
  * Except for one-off specimens (of species hard to identify), on the basis that the record is registered in Artportalen, or an equivalent national database, and that the collection does not contravene any wildlife protection regulations.