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Archipelago National Park
PAN Parks Wilderness area, Archipelago, is the first unique example of a marine wilderness. This is the only continuous marine fishing free zone in the Baltic Sea. This PAN Parks Wilderness hides many secrets of marine life: for instance, small isolated islands and rocks provide homeland for rare seals. Strict rules of wilderness... view park profile
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Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park
PAN Parks wilderness in Borjomi-Kharagauli is located in the central part of the Low Caucasus and besides extensive forest wilderness it also includes alpine meadows full of unique and endemic species. Despite the overwhelming size of PAN Parks Wilderness, short and easy hikes are also worthwhile doing. However, for experienced... view park profile
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Central-Balkan National Park
PAN Parks Wilderness in Central Balkan includes several large fragments of unique undisturbed beech forest in the Central Balkan Mountains. It is the first certified PAN Parks Wilderness on the Balkan Peninsula offering a sheltered habitat for all endangered iconic species typical for this part of Europe - Brown bears, wolves and... view park profile
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Fulufjället National Park
PAN Parks Wilderness in Fulufjället is a unique example of a homogeneous, unfragmented piece of wilderness in the Scandinavian mountains. The wilderness area of this park provides an excellent example of a boreal forest ecosystem providing homeland for Scandinavian animals such as the brown bear, wolves, lynx and moose. The most... view park profile
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Majella National Park
PAN Parks Wilderness in Majella is a unique example of mountainous wilderness in the heart of the Apennine mountains. This is the first certified PAN Parks Wilderness not only in Italy but in the Mediterranean. This proved that PAN Parks Wilderness can be identified not only in remote areas in Scandinavian countries or Central... view park profile
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Oulanka National Park
The PAN Parks wilderness area in Oulanka is a unique example of a meandering river ecosystem surrounded by untouched boreal forest near the Arctic Circle. It is the first certified piece of PAN Parks Wilderness in Finland with the ambition to protect fragments of unlogged boreal forest from intensive reindeer herding.
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Paanajärvi National Park
PAN Parks Wilderness area of Paanajärvi represents a pristine unfragmented example of large boreal forest close to the Arctic Circle. Untouched boreal forests are homeland not only for Brown bears, lynx and the wolf, but also for the very rare wild reindeer. Scale of wilderness in this park is astonishing - boreal forests with... view park profile
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Peneda-Gerês National Park
The last remnants of natural forest in Portugal form the nucleus of the PAN Parks Wilderness area in Peneda-Geres. Decreasing and abandoned grazing have created an opportunity for wilderness restoration thus adding several thousand hectares of mountainous wilderness to the existing wilderness area. This will provide a unique opportunity... view park profile
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Retezat National Park
PAN Parks Wilderness area in Retezat is the first certified piece of wilderness in the Carpathian Mountains, a mountain range well-known in Europe for its extensive wild forests. Retezat’s wilderness presents the wildest and the best protected fragment of the Retezat mountains. It includes dense conifer forest plus treeline and... view park profile
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Rila National Park
The wilderness area of Rila is the second certified PAN Parks Wilderness area in Bulgaria which proves that this country has great wilderness values. The long valleys of the Rila mountain hide many wilderness surprises such as the full spectrum of wilderness iconic species typical for this part of the Balkan Peninsula - brown bears... view park profile
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Soomaa National Park Soomaa NP in Estonia boasts the largest raised bog complex in Europe with a fifth season – as claimed by locals – when naturally meandering rivers create drastic floods changing the landscape
In 1957, in a small part of the present national park – Halliste wooded meadow, was... view park profile |
