Commons:Valued image candidates/Vápenice – natural monument 15 (cut).jpg

Vápenice – natural monument 15 (cut).jpg

**promoted**
Image
Nominated by	Jan Kameníček (talk) on 2014-04-26 23:19 (UTC)
Scope	Nominated as the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Vápenice (nature monument)
Used in	Global usage
Review (criteria)	Question I can't figure what is this "nature monument"? The sole reference I found is [1], which matches the geocode, but there is little explanation. Could you explain please? Thanks, Yann (talk) 04:04, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply] This place used to be a limestone quarry; from this time the terrain bumps come from. After the quarry was abandoned, nature took it back and nowadays there grow variety of plants including some protected species. It is a small area of land (just 0.19 km²) which really differs from its agricultural surroundings, as can be seen on the original picture (this is a cropped version). The area was declared a natural monument of the Czech Republic and put on the IUCN list of protected areas, category IV. Jan Kameníček (talk) 22:44, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply] Since there isn't any Wikipedia article, it would be best to add this information in the category here: Category:Vápenice (nature monument). Yann (talk) 09:25, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply] There is a Czech Wikipedia article cs:Vápenice (přírodní památka), but I decided to write something similar also for English Wikipedia, see en:Vápenice (natural monument). Jan Kameníček (talk) 15:48, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply] Support OK, that makes it clearly valuable. Yann (talk) 09:06, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply] `Result: 1 support, 0 oppose => promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 06:39, 4 May 2014 (UTC)`[reply]