Klåveröd

Welcome to Klåveröd Nature Reserve

Klåveröd Nature Reserve is part of the Scanian Landscape Foundation’s recreation area with the same name. The broad-leaved woodland area is hilly with spectacular cliffs and valleys. Several waymarked trails take you around the site, where there are both shelters and barbeque areas. The nearest neighbour is Söderåsen National Park. To the northeast is Traneröd Mosse, Grindhus and Lilla Klåveröd Nature Reserve.

In the area that is now known as Skåne, a dramatic spectacle took place 150 million years ago. There were lava-spewing volcanoes and large horsts of rock were pushed up, all thanks to powerful movements in the earth’s crust. It was partly during this time that the most impressive ridges in Skåne were formed, including Söderåsen. This can be worth pondering over as you walk past the Reserve’s steep cliffs and remarkable stone pillars in Skorstensdalen.

Thanks to the inaccessible steep slopes of Söderåsen, parts of the woodlands have avoided heavy exploitation by us humans. The trees have been allowed to live out their lives which is why there are plenty of both old and dead trees.

In modern forestry, all trees are felled at a young age, so there is an acute housing and food shortage for many of the species that live in woodlands. The older a tree gets, the more habitats are created – in the cracks of the coarse bark, in the hollows created from a fallen branch or in the decayed wood left behind by a wood decay fungus. Here in Klåveröd there are rare species such as, the pox lichen Pyrenula nitida and the red-horned cardinal click beetle. Both are dependent upon the old trees on the steep slopes.

Regulations

Within Klåveröd Nature Reserve it is forbidden to:

• Dig, bore, paint or in any other way damage the ground, stones, or natural objects,
  
• Light a fire/barbeque other than in designated locations. The use of a camping stoveis permitted in the nature reserve,
  
• Bring dogs or other pets which are not physically held on a lead,
  
• Dig up plants,
  
• Remove dead wood, or in any other way damage living or dead, standing or lying,trees and bushes,
  
• Take off or land with an aircraft, such as a drone.
  
  Without written permission from the County Administrative Board it is also forbidden to:
  
• Put up posters, plaques, signs, notices, tape, orienteering control points or equivalent other than on a temporary basis, and for no more than ten days. The site manager should be informed before they are put up or placed out,
  
• Erect any kind of installation or put out any foreign (for the nature reserve) objects,
  
• catch insects, spiders, snails, or other invertebrates other than with nets, by hand orother selective methods, which does not destroy their habitat and with subsequent re-release within the nature reserve,*
  
• collect mosses or lichens or wood-living fungi, *
  
  * with the exception of one-off specimens, on the condition that the record is registeredin Artportalen, or an equivalent database for threatened species, and that the collection does not contravene any wildlife protection regulations.