Dydaktyczno-wychowawczy walor ochrony przyrody na łamach czasopisma „Ziemia” w Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej

On 30 August 1919, the issuance of the periodical entitled “Ziemia” (full title: “Ziemia. Tygodnik krajoznawczy ilustrowany” [“Earth. Illustrated weekly about sights”]), published in Warsaw (before the First World War, in the period of the Kingdom of Poland ) in the years 1910-1914 (240 issues altogether) was restarted. The aim of the article is to elaborate on the didactic and educational value of the issue of nature conservation featured in the magazine in the time between 1919 and 1939. The source basis consists of 309 issues of the mentioned periodical (weekly, monthly, biweekly, and then monthly again), the organ of the Polskie Towarzystwo Krajoznawcze [Polish Coutry-lovers Society]. The criteria of chronology and the addressed issue have been applied in the article. It presents the issue of nature conservation, the activity of Liga Ochrony Przyrody [League for Nature Conservation] within the scope of spreading the idea of nature conservation and active pro-ecological attitude of the Polish society, as well as the issueconcerning the Białowieża Forest and the richness and sights of the regional natural environment (to which much attention was paid also in the “Ziemia” magazine).