Protected areas of Poland

Centre for Nature Education at the Białowieża National Park, Poland

Protected areas of Poland include the following categories, as defined by the Act on Protection of Nature (Ustawa o ochronie przyrody) of 16 April 2004,^[1] by the Polish Parliament:

• 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, ecological network of protected areas in the territory of the European Union
• 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)

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