Ferruginous Duck

Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park

Pescasseroli, Italy

+139 birds+18 mammals

Where the central Apennines rise in dramatic limestone and clay ridges, the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park unfolds across one of Italy's most…

Alta Murgia National Park

Bari, Italy

+168 birds+6 mammals

Across the limestone plateaux of Apulia's interior, where the Adriatic's influence fades into continental warmth, lies a landscape sculpted by millennia of human pastoralism and Mediterranean…

Bavarian Forest National Park

Germany

+127 birds+18 mammals

Where ancient spruce and fir forests rise across the Bohemian plateau, the Bavarian Forest National Park unfolds as one of central Europe's most intact temperate woodland…

Biebrza National Park

Goniądz, Poland

+242 birds+33 mammals

Where the Narew River sprawls across northeastern Poland's flatlands, Biebrza National Park unfolds as one of Europe's largest and most ecologically vital wetland complexes. Encompassing roughly…

Butrint National Park

Vagalat, Albania

+140 birds+3 mammals

Where the Ionian coast meets ancient alluvial plains, Butrint National Park spans a landscape of extraordinary ecological complexity that has shaped human settlement for three millennia.…

Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park

San José, Spain

+274 birds+11 mammals

Where volcanic ridges plunge toward the Mediterranean, Cabo de Gata-Níjar Nature Park unfolds across one of Europe's most arid coastlines, a landscape sculpted by tectonic violence…

Cabo Peñas

Susacasa, Spain

+303 birds+21 mammals

Where sea cliffs rise sheer from the Bay of Biscay, Susacasa's observation point commands one of Asturias's most dramatic coastal vistas. The landscape here is defined…

Camargue Regional Nature Park

Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France

+378 birds+48 mammals

Where the Rhône Delta sprawls into the Mediterranean, a landscape of stark and haunting beauty emerges—vast salt marshes punctuated by shallow lagoons, reed beds, and scrubland…

Caohai National Nature Reserve

Bijie, China

+93 birds

At roughly 1,900 metres elevation on Guizhou's high plateau, Caohai sprawls across a temperate landscape shaped by pronounced seasonal extremes. Winters here are dry and cool,…

Circeo National Park

Italy

+232 birds+6 mammals

Where limestone headlands plunge toward the Tyrrhenian Sea, Circeo National Park preserves a rare mosaic of Mediterranean coastal habitats that few Italian reserves can match. The…

Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve

Tulcea, Romania

+277 birds+27 mammals

Where the Danube surrenders to the Black Sea, a vast labyrinth of channels, reed beds, and freshwater lakes sprawls across nearly 13,400 square kilometers of eastern…

Delta de l’Ebre Natural Park

Eucaliptus, Spain

+341 birds+18 mammals

Where the Ebro River spreads into a vast labyrinth of shallow lagoons, reed beds, and brackish marshes before surrendering to the Mediterranean, one of southern Europe's…

Dirigida Laguna de Gallocanta Nature Reserve

Las Cuerlas, Spain

+250 birds+7 mammals

Where continental steppe meets the vast mirror of inland water, Spain's largest natural lagoon reveals a landscape of haunting beauty. The shallow alkaline lake, cradled in…

Doñana National Park

Hinojos, Spain

+300 birds+13 mammals

Where the Guadalquivir River delta spreads into the Atlantic, vast marshes, cork woodlands, and coastal dunes converge to create one of southwestern Europe's most biodiverse wetland…

Duna-Ipoly National Park

Dömös, Hungary

+208 birds+19 mammals

Where the Danube curves through central Hungary, the limestone hills and forested valleys of Duna-Ipoly National Park create a landscape that feels caught between seasons and…

Espacio Natural Remolar-Filipinas

El Prat del Llobregat, Spain

+297 birds+7 mammals

Where the Llobregat River delta meets the Mediterranean, a patchwork of salt marshes, reed beds, and shallow lagoons creates one of Catalonia's most dynamic wetland ecosystems.…

Estrecho Natural Park

Pedro Valiente, Spain

+281 birds+20 mammals

Where Mediterranean pine forests meet wind-sculpted coastal cliffs, one of Europe's most dynamic ecological crossroads unfolds across the Strait of Gibraltar. Spanning 686 square kilometers of…

Fertő–hanság National Park

Fertőszéplak, Hungary

+246 birds+11 mammals

Where the Austro-Hungarian plains meet the foothills of Western Transdanubia, nearly 900 square kilometres of wetland, reed bed, and mixed woodland form one of Central Europe's…

Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve

Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, China

+443 birds+13 mammals

Gargano National Park

Cagnano Varano, Italy

+219 birds+7 mammals

Where the Gargano Peninsula's limestone plateaus descend toward the Adriatic, Cagnano Varano sits at the threshold of one of southern Italy's most ecologically vital landscapes. The…

Giant Panda National Park

Mianyang, China

+447 birds+47 mammals

Where the eastern slopes of China's Sichuan plateau descend into cloud-wrapped valleys, one of Asia's most biodiverse landscapes unfolds across more than 350,000 square kilometres. This…

Gir National Park

Asundrali, India

+258 birds+13 mammals

Dry deciduous forests cloak the rolling hills of western Gujarat where the Gir landscape rises as a final sanctuary for one of the world's rarest felids:…

Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park

Pietracamela, Italy

+155 birds+12 mammals

Where the Apennines rise in their most dramatic form, the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park unfolds across nearly 70,000 hectares of limestone peaks,…

Hortobágy National Park

Hortobágy, Hungary

+260 birds+17 mammals

Across the North Great Plain of Hungary stretches one of Europe's most expansive semi-natural grassland systems, where horizon-wide vistas of steppe and wetland create a landscape…

Hustai National Park

Altanbulag, Mongolia

+198 birds+16 mammals

Where the steppe rolls endlessly beneath vast Mongolian skies, Hustai National Park preserves one of Central Asia's most dynamic grassland ecosystems. Rolling hills and open prairie…

Javakheti National Park

Bozali, Georgia

+138 birds

Dawn breaks over a high-altitude plateau where volcanic peaks pierce the Caucasian sky, their slopes cloaked in alpine meadows that stretch toward horizons of impossible clarity.…

Jiuzhai Valley

Jiuzhaigou County, China

+226 birds+7 mammals

Where crystalline alpine streams cascade through limestone gorges and karst terrain rises in dramatic vertical walls, Jiuzhai Valley unfolds across nearly 1,300 square kilometers of southwestern…

Kaziranga National Park

Kohora, India

+422 birds+26 mammals

Dawn breaks over the floodplains of the Brahmaputra, where tall grasslands stretch endlessly beneath monsoon-heavy skies. This sprawling wilderness of northeastern Assam is a mosaic of…

Keoladeo National Park

Shreenagar Rural, India

+326 birds+14 mammals

Where shallow wetlands shimmer beneath vast Rajasthani skies, one of Asia's finest bird sanctuaries pulses with extraordinary life. This former maharaja's hunting reserve, now spanning 29…

Kerkini Lake National Park

Serres, Greece

+291 birds+18 mammals

Where the Strymon River widens into a sprawling freshwater lake hemmed by the Rhodope Mountains, Kerkini National Park unfolds across northern Greece as one of southeastern…

Khoridol Saridag National Park

Khatgal, Mongolia

+164 birds+6 mammals

Where granite peaks thrust skyward across Mongolia's remote southeastern reaches, a landscape of raw geological drama unfolds. Deep river gorges carved through ancient stone create a…

L’Albufera Natural Park

València, Spain

+321 birds+18 mammals

Where shallow lagoons meet Mediterranean coastal marshland, L'Albufera Nature Park unfolds as one of Spain's most vital wetland complexes. This protected landscape, designated under IUCN Category…

La Maddalena Archipelago National Park

La Maddalena, Italy

+86 birds+1 mammals

Crystalline waters lap against granite islands scattered across the Tyrrhenian Sea, where Dell'Arcipelago di la Maddalena unfolds as a Mediterranean archipelago of raw geological beauty and…

Lagunas de Archidona Nature Reserve

Archidona, Spain

+142 birds+4 mammals

Where shallow freshwater lagoons merge with reed beds and Mediterranean scrub, Lagunas de Archidona in Andalusia creates a wetland mosaic of profound ecological importance. These interconnected…

Marjal Pego-Oliva Natural Park

Molinell, Spain

+219 birds+2 mammals

Where the Valencian littoral flattens into wetland and reed-bed, Marjal Pego-Oliva straddles the boundary between the Mediterranean and its inland margins, a mosaic of shallow lagoons,…

Montes de Málaga Natural Park

Málaga, Spain

+159 birds+7 mammals

Where cork oak and pine forest sweep across the rugged hills inland from the Costa del Sol, the Montes de Málaga Nature Park unfolds as a…

National Park Djerdap

Mehedinți, Romania

+127 birds+5 mammals

Where the Danube carves its most dramatic passage through southeastern Europe, the Djerdap Gorge defines the boundary between Romania and Serbia, and within this UNESCO-recognised landscape…

Olympos National Park

Pieria Regional Unit, Greece

+137 birds+3 mammals

Where the Thessalian plains give way to soaring limestone massifs, Olympos National Park rises as one of the Aegean's most dramatic mountain wilderness areas. This IUCN…

Orang National Park

Rangagarapathar, India

+298 birds+1 mammals

Where the Brahmaputra's floodplains meet the foothills of Assam, Orang National Park unfolds across a mosaic of riverine grasslands, forests and wetlands that pulse with the…

Panna National Park

Badgadi Kalan, India

+271 birds+17 mammals

Where granite gorges slice through central India's Vindhyan plateau, a landscape of stark beauty unfolds across nearly six hundred square kilometers. The Ken River carves through…

Polesie National Park

Michałów, Poland

+172 birds+9 mammals

Where the Pripyat River winds through eastern Poland, Polesie National Park sprawls across 418 square kilometres of a landscape shaped by water, peat, and millennia of…

Poyang Lake National Nature Reserve

Shangrao, China

+270 birds+7 mammals

Where the Yangtze River's massive floodplain spreads across central China, Poyang Lake National Nature Reserve encompasses one of the continent's most dynamic and water-rich wetland systems.…

Qinghai Lake National Nature Reserve

Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China

+243 birds+11 mammals

At 3,200 metres above sea level on the Tibetan plateau, where winter temperatures plunge far below freezing and snow blankets the landscape for half the year,…

Ranthambhore National Park

Sawai Madhopur, India

+294 birds+20 mammals

Granite ridges and ravines carved through the Aravalli Range frame this protected landscape in eastern Rajasthan, where deciduous forest mingles with open scrubland and seasonal water…

S’Albufera Natural Park

Platja de Muro, Spain

+253 birds+6 mammals

Where Mediterranean lagoons meet the Balearic coast, S'Albufera stretches across nearly 1,600 hectares of wetland and dune systems that rank among Europe's most ecologically vital shallow-water…

Sanjiangyuan National Park

Nagqu, China

+187 birds+25 mammals

Where the headwaters of three great Asian rivers emerge from a high alpine plateau, the landscape unfolds in tundra and dwarf shrubland—a world of austere beauty…

Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wattenmeer National Park

Germany

+378 birds+49 mammals

Where the North Sea ebbs and flows across a vast expanse of exposed mud and sand, the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wattenmeer National Park reveals one of Europe's most…

Sierra de Castril Natural Park

Castril, Spain

+110 birds+13 mammals

Where limestone walls rise abruptly from the Guadalentín valley, carving passages of breathtaking drama through Andalusia's interior, one encounters the raw geological theatre of this protected…

Tablas de Daimiel National Park

Daimiel, Spain

+246 birds+6 mammals

Where the Guadiana River spreads into a labyrinth of shallow lagoons and reed beds across the sun-baked plains of central Spain, Tablas de Daimiel National Park…

Ujście Warty National Park

Gorzów County, Poland

+212 birds+9 mammals

Where the Warta River spreads into its delta before joining the Oder, wetland and woodland merge into one of central Europe's most vital ecological crossroads. Ujście…

Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve

Txatxarramendi, Spain

+268 birds+8 mammals

Where the Pyrenean foothills surrender to the Bay of Biscay, tidal estuaries carve through Basque limestone, creating one of Europe's most ecologically vital wetland complexes. Salt…

Wolong National Nature Reserve

Wenchuan County, China

+333 birds+17 mammals

Where the Qingyi River cuts through the eastern flanks of the Minshan Range, a temperate montane forest cloaks steep valleys in dense canopy that thins dramatically…

Yancheng National Nature Reserve

Yancheng, China

+208 birds+4 mammals

Where the East China Sea's tidal rhythms sculpt the Jiangsu coast, Yancheng National Nature Reserve sprawls across one of Asia's most dynamic wetland complexes. This vast…