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Jigokudani Monkey Park (地獄谷野猿公苑)
Jigokudani Monkey Park (地獄谷野猿公苑) is an unfenced 1964 park in Yamanouchi, Nagano, where a wild troop of about 160 Japanese macaques, drawn by regulated feeding, famously bathes in a natural hot spring.
Jim Corbett National Park
Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, India: established 1936 as Hailey National Park, India's first national park and Project Tiger's 1973 launch site; core of Corbett Tiger Reserve with India's highest tiger abundance (260 in 2022).
Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟)
Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟), a UNESCO World Heritage valley of travertine lakes and waterfalls in Sichuan, China, inscribed 1992, a 1997 biosphere reserve, hit by the 2017 Ms 7.0 earthquake, capped at 41,000 visitors daily.
Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area
Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco (Parque Nacional y ANMI Kaa-Iya) is Bolivia's largest protected area, about 3.4 million hectares of Gran Chaco dry forest created by decree in 1995 at the initiative of the Izoceño-Guaraní people and long co-managed with CABI.
Kakadu National Park
Kakadu National Park is Australia's largest terrestrial national park, covering almost 20,000 square kilometers east of Darwin, with Aboriginal rock art and World Heritage listing.
Kanha Tiger Reserve
Kanha Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh (also Kanha National Park): 2,074 sq km Satpura reserve famous for saving the hard-ground barasingha (66 to ~750 animals) and for 105+ tigers, first nine Project Tiger reserves.
Kata Tjuta
Kata Tjuta, also called the Olgas or Mount Olga, is a group of 28 conglomerate rock domes 32 km west of Uluru in Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park, sacred to Aṉangu and jointly managed since the 1985 handback.
Keoladeo National Park (केवलादेव राष्ट्रीय उद्यान)
Keoladeo National Park (केवलादेव राष्ट्रीय उद्यान), formerly Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, is a 2,873 ha man-made wetland in Rajasthan, India; a Ramsar site (1981), national park (1982), and UNESCO World Heritage Site (1985) hosting about 375 bird species on the Central Asian flyway.
Khao Yai National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาใหญ่)
Khao Yai National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาใหญ่) is Thailand's first national park, established in 1962, covering 2,166 km² across four provinces about 200 km from Bangkok and inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.
Kilimanjaro National Park
Kilimanjaro National Park (TANAPA/KINAPA) in northeastern Tanzania protects Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak at 5,895 m with Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira cones; a 1973 national park, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, known for its glaciers and climbing routes.
Kinabalu Park
Kinabalu Park (Taman Kinabalu) is a national park in Sabah, Malaysia, on northern Borneo, dominated by Mount Kinabalu, the island's highest peak, and established in 1964.
Kinchega National Park
Kinchega National Park, a 44,182-hectare NSW park on the Darling River near Menindee, established 1967 from Kinchega Station, with the historic 1875 Kinchega Woolshed, Paakantji heritage, and Menindee Lakes wetlands.
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.
Kruger National Park
Kruger National Park, South Africa's first national park (proclaimed 31 May 1926 from the 1898 Sabie Game Reserve), covers about 1.9 million hectares in Mpumalanga and Limpopo, holds 147 mammal and 507 bird species, and draws 1-2 million visitors yearly.
Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park
Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park (Kugluk, Inuinnaqtun for white water) is a Nunavut park 13 km south of Kugluktuk on the Coppermine River, protecting Bloody Falls, a 1978 national historic site with 3,000-plus years of Pre-Dorset, Thule, and Inuit archaeology.
Lake Louise, Alberta
Lake Louise, Alberta: glacial lake in Banff National Park, 55 km west of Banff, turquoise from rock flour; discovered 1882 by Tom Wilson, renamed 1884 for Princess Louise; CPR resort from 1890; heavily managed for shuttle-based tourism.
Lake Turkana National Parks
Lake Turkana National Parks: serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Kenya (Sibiloi, Central Island, South Island parks; 161,485 ha), inscribed 1997, extended 2001, on the Danger List since 2018 over the Gibe III dam.
Lamington National Park
Lamington National Park is a 21,176-hectare rainforest park on the McPherson Range in south-east Queensland, established in 1915 and part of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area.
Lane Cove National Park
Lane Cove National Park: 670-hectare NSW national park (gazetted 1992) along the Lane Cove River in Sydney's north, a bushland corridor with Aboriginal sites, threatened species, picnics, walks and holiday park.
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park (Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses), created 1981 in Maranhão, Brazil: 156,562 ha of white barchan dunes, the largest dune field in South America, with rain-fed temporary lagoons; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2024.
Lincoln National Park
Lincoln National Park is a 29,060-hectare coastal park on the southern tip of South Australia's Eyre Peninsula near Port Lincoln, overlooking Boston Bay, with Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area, Sleaford-Wanna dunes, and 1941/1972 reserve history.
Litchfield National Park (Australia)
Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory: a ~1,500 km2 park 120 km southwest of Darwin, managed by NT Parks and Wildlife Commission, known for Tabletop Range waterfalls, swimming holes, magnetic termite mounds, the Lost City, and free entry versus Kakadu.
Loango National Park
Loango National Park is a 1,550 km² protected area on Gabon's Atlantic coast, created in 2002, where rainforest, lagoons, and ocean beach meet in one landscape.
Los Alerces National Park
Los Alerces National Park (Parque Nacional Los Alerces), a 259,822-hectare park in Chubut, Argentine Patagonia, created in 1937 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2017, protects ancient alerce (Fitzroya cupressoides) forests with trees over 3,600 years old.
Lushan National Park
Lushan National Park (庐山国家公园), a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China, inscribed 1996 as China's first World Cultural Landscape; 30,200 ha, Hanyang Peak 1,474 m, Donglin Temple, White Deer Cave Academy, and Global Geopark.
Madidi National Park
Madidi National Park (Parque Nacional y ANMI Madidi) is a 1,895,750-hectare Bolivian protected area created in 1995 in northwest La Paz department, spanning Andes-to-Amazon elevations and ranking among the world's most biodiverse parks, with community ecotourism at Chalalán.
Manas National Park
Manas National Park, Assam, India: Himalayan-foothill protected area, UNESCO World Heritage Site (1985), Tiger Reserve, and Biosphere Reserve; lost rhinos to 1990s unrest, recovered them via Indian Rhino Vision 2020.
Marine reserves of New Zealand
Marine reserves of New Zealand are no-take areas under the Marine Reserves Act 1971, the country's highest marine protection. 44 reserves cover 17,178 km² (9.5% of the territorial sea), mostly around the Kermadec and Subantarctic Islands; the first, Goat Island, dates to 1975.
McNabs Island
McNabs Island, largest island at the entrance to Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, part of McNabs and Lawlor Islands Provincial Park; Mi'kmaq, McNab family farming, and fortifications including Fort McNab National Historic Site.
Mont-Tremblant National Park
Mont-Tremblant National Park (French: parc national du Mont-Tremblant) is a 1,510 km² park in Quebec's Laurentian highlands, created in 1895 as the first park in Quebec.