GERMANY · DESIGNATIONS · PROTECTED AREAS

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What this layer shows

Germany's sixteen national parks under § 24 BNatSchG: large, largely undivided areas, most of whose surface is intended to develop as undisturbed as possible. They are protected in the same way as nature reserves, so far as the purpose of protection allows. The underlying data is what Germany last reported to the European Environment Agency; the legally binding boundary is the ordinance held by the competent nature conservation authority.

Publisher and licence

European Environment Agency · EEA standard re-use policy

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Where the data comes from

ARCGIS · bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu

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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.

Facts shown for each feature

Area (ha) · Designated · IUCN category

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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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