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Protected areas of Poland

Protected areas of Poland

Protected areas in Poland include the following types, as defined by the "Act on protection of nature" of 16 April 2004:

* 23 National Parks (see list of National Parks of Poland)
* 121 Landscape Parks (see list of Landscape Parks of Poland)
* over 1300 nature reserves
* 450 protected landscape areas ("obszary chronionego krajobrazu")
* about 500 Natura 2000 sites
* geological "documentary sites" ("stanowiska dokumentacyjne")
* over 6,000 "ecological sites" ("użytki ekologiczne")
* "nature and landscape complexes" ("zespoły przyrodniczo-krajobrazowe")
* about 33,000 natural monuments (mainly trees, also some caves etc.)

Poland also has:
* 9 UNESCO-designated biosphere reserves (see list of biosphere reserves in Poland)
* 13 UNESCO-designated World Heritage Sites (see list of World Heritage Sites in Poland)
* 13 Ramsar wetland sites (see list)

References

*Polish|Ochrona przyrody w Polsce|1 June 2008

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