offer canoeing trip for a day or up to 3 days. Even our own school has 2 canoes. 3) Wildlife tourism: Along the river basin there is abundance of different wildlife species, for example broad-leaved trees and different bird species, which are under conservation of the environmental law. 4) Swampland tourism: Soomaa National Park is the second biggest natural reserve. Soomaa has been created to protect large raised bogs, flood plain grasslands, paludified forests and meandering rivers. The territory of the national park is mostly covered with large mires, separated from each other by the rivers of the Pärnu River basin 2011
sedges, marsh parsley, melancholy thistle etc are typical innthe ground vegetation. Enamlevinud liigid alusmetsas on: paakspuu, pajud, kadakas. Sinihelmikas, jäneskastik, sookastik, lubikas, tarnad,soo-piimputk, villohakas jne on tüüpilised alustaimestikus . Mosses can be found mostly on mounds. Samblaid võib enamasti leida mätastel. 11 DWARF-SHRUB-SPHAGNUM PALUDIFIED FORESTS RABASTUVAD METSAD This group is characterized by acid soil with superfluous moisture, well-developed dwarf shrub and moss layer that contains considerable amounts of bog and hair moss. Seda gruppi iseloomustab happeline liigniiske muld, hästi arenenud puhma- ja samblarinne ja samblakiht, mis sisaldab suurel hulgal soo (turba) ja karusammalt. The bog whortleberry (Vaccinium uliginosum) site type is more widespread in northern and southwestern Estonia