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Its height once reached a maximum of 60 metres, but decreased due to the dune's steady eastward movement and discharge of sand into the
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to preserve a unique natural dune landscape, including bare and forested land, as well as the coastal areas of the dunes at both the
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washouts. Manmade sources of degradation include people climbing the dune in non-prescribed places, which disturbs the sand.
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As of 2016, experts estimated the allowable recreational limit to be 25 dune visitors per square meter in half a day.
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Parnidis Dune is one of the main tourist attractions of the Curonian Spit National Park. A
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A new cognitive trail offers impressive panoramas of the
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