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GERMANY · DESIGNATIONS · PROTECTED AREAS

Biosphärenreservat — Kernzone

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The core zone of a biosphere reserve supports natural processes with as little human influence as possible. Section 25(3) BNatSchG provides for zoned protection; the UNESCO recognition criteria require the core zone to be secured as a national park, nature reserve or through equivalent legal instruments. Binding local protection rules determine prohibitions and exceptions; the mapped boundary alone does not. The data reflect the latest submission to the European Environment Agency; check the current rules of the competent conservation authority.

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European Environment Agency · EEA standard re-use policy

© European Environment Agency, EEA standard re-use policy

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Where the data comes from

ARCGIS · bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu

Merestone asks this service live for the area on screen. Nothing is copied or stored beyond a short cache.

This layer is drawn from the European Environment Agency's annual return of what Germany reports, not from a live service of the national body itself. A boundary changed this year appears here when the next return is published.

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Protected areas

Every area-based protection at once: Natura 2000, nature and landscape protection areas, national parks, national natural monuments and biosphere reserves with their three zones, plus the nature parks and Ramsar sites the European return leaves out. The nature parks come per state or from the BfN's national register, the Ramsar sites from some states only.

Data search

Where an ecological consultant or a planning office starts: the protected-site network, the small designations (natural monuments and protected landscape components), the biotopes protected by law, the Annex I habitat types with their critical loads, and the species records. The small designations and biotopes are available where that state publishes them openly.

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