🌲 Protected Areas
3408 national parks, reserves & biosphere areas · location & ecology
These are the world’s most important protected areas — national parks, nature reserves and biosphere reserves that safeguard biodiversity, ecosystems and cultural landscapes. Each profile shows where the area sits, which country manages it, its protection category, and what makes it ecologically special, with a plain-English introduction drawn live from Wikipedia so the description stays accurate and sourced rather than invented.
3408 protected areas from 175 countries are covered below, grouped by continent. Open any name for its full profile.
🌲 National Park government-managed wilderness & recreation · 🦎 Nature Reserve strict biodiversity protection · 🌐 Biosphere Reserve UNESCO-recognised human-nature coexistence.
Africa (388) Americas (603) Asia (647) Europe (1035) Oceania (735)