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Białowieża Forest (Белавежская пушча)
Białowieża Forest (Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Puszcza Białowieska) is a 141,885-ha transboundary UNESCO World Heritage primary forest on the Poland–Belarus border, home to the largest free-roaming European bison population and the site of a major logging and border-barrier conservation conflict.
Brecon Beacons
Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog) is a Welsh national park designated in 1957; on 17 April 2023 its authority adopted the Welsh name, meaning Peaks of Brychan's Kingdom, alongside a net-zero-by-2035 management plan.
Brecon Beacons National Park
Brecon Beacons National Park, also known as Bannau Brycheiniog or Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog, is a national park in South Wales designated in 1957 and covering about 520 square miles.
Cairngorms National Park
Cairngorms National Park, Scotland's second national park (established 2003, extended 2010), is the UK's largest national park in the Highlands, managed by the Cairngorms National Park Authority, with about 2 million annual visitors, three ski centres, and a major 2026 wildfire.
Cévennes
Cévennes: mountain region of the southern French Massif Central, home to the Cévennes National Park (created 1970, inhabited core), a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1985, and the Causses and Cévennes World Heritage agro-pastoral landscape (2011).
Cévennes National Park
Cévennes National Park (Parc national des Cévennes) is a French national park created in 1970 in Lozère and Gard, with farming treated as part of its heritage.
Doñana National Park
Doñana National Park (Parque Nacional de Doñana): national park and wetland in Andalusia, Spain, created 1969, UNESCO World Heritage 1994; famed for migratory birds, Iberian lynx, and aquifer-driven drying.
Exmoor
Exmoor is a 267-square-mile National Park in south-west England, designated in 1954, known for open moorland, high sea cliffs, wooded valleys, dark skies, over 2 million annual visitors, and pine marten reintroduction.
Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta
Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta (Hortobágyi Nemzeti Park) is a World Heritage cultural landscape of plains and wetlands on the Great Hungarian Plain in eastern Hungary, inscribed by UNESCO in 1999.
Krka National Park
Krka National Park (Nacionalni park "Krka") is a 109 km² Croatian national park in Šibenik-Knin County, proclaimed in 1985, protecting seven tufa waterfalls on the Krka River, including Skradinski buk, Europe's longest tufa barrier.
Montecristo
Montecristo, Isola di Montecristo: uninhabited Italian island in the Tuscan Archipelago, 10.4 sq km, 63 km offshore; state nature reserve since 1971, famed for Dumas's novel, 700-year-old holm oaks, and strictly limited visits.
Mount Scenery National Park
Mount Scenery National Park, Saba, Dutch Caribbean: protected area established 2018 covering 26% of the island around Mount Scenery, the 887 m highest point of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, managed by the Saba Conservation Foundation.
National parks of the United Kingdom
The national parks of the United Kingdom are 15 protected landscapes, 10 in England, 3 in Wales, 2 in Scotland, designated mainly under the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, first the Peak District in 1951, latest the South Downs in 2010.
North York Moors
North York Moors: upland heather moorland area in north-east Yorkshire, England, protected as a National Park since 12 February 1952. Covers 1,436 km², holds England's largest continuous tract of upland heather moorland, and is an International Dark Sky Reserve.
Northeast Greenland National Park
Northeast Greenland National Park (Danish: Nationalparken i Nord- og Østgrønland) is the world's largest national park, a 972,000 km² protected area in northeastern Greenland, established in 1974.
Peak District
Peak District: upland area at the southern Pennines' tip, protected as the UK's first national park (17 April 1951), 555 sq mi across Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, and Cheshire, with Dark and White Peak landscapes, 13 million annual visitors.
Plitvice Lakes National Park
Plitvice Lakes National Park, or Nacionalni park, is Croatia's oldest national park and a UNESCO World Heritage site located in mountainous central Croatia, known for its 16 cascading lakes.
Saxon Switzerland
Saxon Switzerland (Sächsische Schweiz) is the German sandstone hill country along the Elbe southeast of Dresden, named by painters Zingg and Graff; its 1990 national park covers 9,344 ha with 1,135 climbable sandstone peaks.
Teide National Park
Teide National Park (Parque Nacional del Teide) is a UNESCO World Heritage national park on Tenerife, Canary Islands, centered on the 3,718 m Teide-Pico Viejo stratovolcano, Spain's highest peak, with 18,990 ha and over 4 million annual visitors.
Vilsandi
Vilsandi (Vilsandi rahvuspark) is an island and national park off western Saaremaa, Estonia. Its Vaika Islands bird sanctuary of 1910 was Estonia's and the Baltic States' first protected area; Ramsar site 913 since 1997.
Þingvellir National Park
Þingvellir National Park (Thingvellir), Iceland: site of the Alþing general assembly (c. 930–1798), UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004, and a Mid-Atlantic Ridge rift valley with Lake Þingvallavatn and the Silfra fissure.