Negative Aspects and Hazardous Effects of Forest Environment on Human Health

摘要: Direct contacts with the nature can help people to improve their overall health and fitness. However, visits forests other open green spaces may also, occasionally, lead problems, or even threaten human life. Senescent potentially unstable trees, fallen leaves fruits which litter pavements streets, possible encounters wild animals, deteriorating tree quality by pests pathogens plant protection activity directed at solving these problems be perceived as negative aspects being unpleasant, detracting, scary, dangerous, otherwise unattractive, although, objectively, in most cases they are not such. On hand, a number of allergic factors such pollen spores moulds, toxic poisonous mushrooms plants, tick-borne pathogens, blood-feeding stinging insects, well venomous snakes predatory mammals can, pose real hazard health. In many hazards realized visitors spaces. The objective this chapter is scare urban parks, but make them aware potential related visits. It show threats suggest periods, places situations should avoided order keep safe rewarding for well-being.