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Alt Pirineu Natural Park

Cassibrós, Spain

+95 birds+22 mammals

Where granite peaks scrape the Catalan sky and ancient beech forests give way to high alpine meadows, one of the […]

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Åsnens National Park

Kronoberg County, Sweden

+18 birds+3 mammals

Where granite ridges plunge into crystalline waters, Sweden’s southern borderlands reveal a landscape carved by ice age forces and refined […]

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Aspromonte National Park

Careri, Italy

+130 birds+20 mammals

Where granite massifs pierce the Calabrian sky and Mediterranean maquis gives way to beech forests, one of southern Italy’s most […]

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Bannau Brycheiniog National Park

Powys, United Kingdom

+120 birds+29 mammals

Red sandstone peaks rise abruptly from rolling moorland in South Wales, where wind-sculpted ridges and glacial valleys create some of […]

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Bavarian Forest National Park

Germany

+121 birds+30 mammals

Where beech and spruce embrace across ancient granite uplands, Central Europe’s wildest borderland unfolds. The Bavarian Forest straddles the German-Czech […]

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Biebrza National Park

Goniądz, Poland

+130 birds+25 mammals

Where wetland and water merge across northeastern Poland’s vast floodplain, one of Europe’s most pristine riverine ecosystems unfolds across nearly […]

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Forest & Jungle

Bosc de Virós

Ainet de Besan, Spain

+121 birds+30 mammals

Where granite gorges slice through the eastern Pyrenees, a temperate wonderland emerges in the borderlands between Spain and Andorra. Bosc […]

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Forest & Jungle

Bosques de Plan

San Juan de Plan, Spain

+123 birds+30 mammals

Where granite peaks plunge into beech and fir forests, the Pyrenean valleys of Bosques de Plan unfold in dramatic tiers […]

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Cabañeros National Park

Retuerta del Bullaque, Spain

+57 birds+9 mammals

Cabañeros National Park is one of Spain’s finest wildlife destinations and one of the best-preserved examples of Mediterranean forest and […]

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Cadí Moixeró Nature Park

Bagà, Spain

+122 birds+30 mammals

Cadí-Moixeró Natural Park is one of the largest and most spectacular protected areas in Catalonia, located in the heart of […]

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Cairngorms National Park

Muir, United Kingdom

+124 birds+27 mammals

Where ancient granite massifs rise above the Scottish Highlands, a subarctic wilderness unfolds across 1,748 square kilometres of raw, elemental […]

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Cañón del Río Lobos Nature Park

Santa María de las Hoyas, Spain

+126 birds+25 mammals

Where limestone cliffs rise abruptly from a serpentine river valley, the Río Lobos carves one of Spain’s most dramatic natural […]

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Cap de Ferrutx Nature Reserve

Artà, Spain

+137 birds+12 mammals

Where limestone cliffs plunge into crystalline Mediterranean waters, a mosaic of Mediterranean scrubland, pine forest, and rocky terrain defines one […]

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Capçaleres del Ter i del Freser Nature Park

La Farga, Spain

+108 birds+20 mammals

Where granite peaks claw at the Catalan sky, alpine meadows and ancient beech forests unfold across nearly 300 square kilometers […]

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Cévennes (Cœur) National Park

Vebron, France

+120 birds+32 mammals

Where granite ridges plunge into serpentine river valleys, a wilderness of schist and limestone unfolds across the Massif Central. Ancient […]

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Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni National Park

Campora, Italy

+76 birds+17 mammals

Limestone cliffs plunge toward the Tyrrhenian Sea while ancient beech forests crown the interior highlands, creating a mosaic of Mediterranean […]

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D’Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park

la Vall de Boí, Spain

+106 birds+15 mammals

Granite peaks rise dramatically from crystalline lakes in Spain’s Pyrenean heartland, where torrential streams cascade through meadows studded with alpine […]

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Dartmoor National Park

West Devon, United Kingdom

+103 birds+19 mammals

Where weathered granite tors pierce the horizon and wind-sculpted moorland sprawls across 368 square miles of southwestern England, a landscape […]

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Della Majella National Park

Pacentro, Italy

+53 birds+14 mammals

Where limestone massifs pierce the Apennine spine, a realm of vertical drama unfolds across nearly 75,000 hectares of pristine Italian […]

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Dirigida Laguna de Gallocanta Nature Reserve

Las Cuerlas, Spain

+136 birds+21 mammals

Where continental steppe meets the vast mirror of inland water, Spain’s largest natural lagoon reveals a landscape of haunting beauty. […]

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Doñana National Park

Hinojos, Spain

+146 birds+12 mammals

Where the Guadalquivir River spills into the Atlantic, Spain’s southwestern corner erupts into one of Europe’s most biodiverse wetlands. Vast […]

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Drawa National Park

Strzelce-Drezdenko County, Poland

+47 birds+7 mammals

Where pine forests slope toward crystalline waterways, one of Poland’s most compelling wilderness sanctuaries unfolds across 508 square kilometers of […]

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Écrins (Cœur) National Park

La Chapelle-en-Valgaudémar, France

+107 birds+24 mammals

Where granite peaks pierce the Alpine cloudline and glacial torrents carve through crystalline valleys, France’s wildest mountain heart reveals itself. […]

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Eryri National Park

Gwynedd, United Kingdom

+122 birds+29 mammals

Where granite peaks pierce the Welsh sky, alpine meadows cascade into oak-clad valleys and windswept moorlands define the horizon. This […]

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Nature Reserve

Espai d’interès natural de les Gavarres

Cruïlles, Monells i Sant Sadurní de l'Heura, Spain

+116 birds+14 mammals

Where Mediterranean scrubland meets temperate forest, rolling granite hills define one of Catalonia’s most biodiverse landscapes. Across nearly 600 square […]

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Estrecho Nature Park

Pedro Valiente, Spain

+135 birds+23 mammals

Where Mediterranean pine forests meet wind-sculpted coastal cliffs, one of Europe’s most dynamic ecological crossroads unfolds across the Strait of […]

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Exmoor National Park

Somerset, United Kingdom

+103 birds+21 mammals

Windswept moorlands rise abruptly from the Bristol Channel, where heather and gorse blanket rolling uplands carved by Iron Age settlements […]

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Forêts (Cœur) National Park

Lucey, France

+47 birds+11 mammals

Deep beech and oak forests cloak the rolling plateaus of northeastern France, where ancient woodlands rise and fall across nearly […]

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Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park

Pietracamela, Italy

+78 birds+18 mammals

Where granite massifs pierce the Apennine spine, weathered limestone cliffs rise from verdant beech forests in a landscape of dramatic […]

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Harz National Park

Harz (LK Goslar), Germany

+122 birds+30 mammals

Where dense beech and spruce forests rise across rolling highlands, ancient granite peaks emerge from blankets of mist, creating one […]

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Jasmund National Park

Sassnitz, Germany

+126 birds+26 mammals

Soaring white limestone cliffs plunge dramatically toward the Baltic Sea, their chalk faces sculpted by millennia of wind and wave […]

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Lake District National Park

Westmorland and Furness, United Kingdom

+124 birds+25 mammals

Glacial valleys plunge between fell-sided mountains where slate-grey waters mirror some of England’s most dramatic upland terrain. This landscape of […]

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Lower Oder Valley National Park

Schwedt/Oder, Germany

+124 birds+30 mammals

Where two nations’ borders converge along the Oder River, a landscape of wetlands, floodplain forests and oxbow lakes unfolds across […]

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Mercantour (Cœur) National Park

Isola, France

+120 birds+29 mammals

Where alpine meadows surrender to vertiginous limestone cliffs, the Mercantour’s beating heart pulses with Mediterranean and Alpine rhythms. This 4,221-square-kilometre […]

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Monfragüe National Park

Torrejón el Rubio, Spain

+118 birds+11 mammals

Where granite gorges slice through the heart of Extremadura, ancient Mediterranean scrubland meets a landscape sculpted by the Tagus River. […]

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Montaña Palentina Nature Park

Vidrieros, Spain

+86 birds+15 mammals

Where granite massifs rise above 2,200 metres and beech forests give way to alpine meadows, Spain’s northern interior reveals a […]

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Mountain & Alpine

Montañas de Prades

Capafonts, Spain

+126 birds+28 mammals

Where granite peaks rise abruptly from the Tarragona hinterland, a wild mosaic of pine forests, scrubland, and limestone cliffs creates […]

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Norra Kvill National Park

Kalmar County, Sweden

+13 birds

Where primordial forest meets weathered bedrock, one of Europe’s most pristine old-growth woodlands persists in southeastern Sweden. Norra Kvill’s 2 […]

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North York Moors National Park

North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

+128 birds+21 mammals

Heather moorlands roll across 554 square miles of the Yorkshire uplands, where rolling hills give way to deep valleys carved […]

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Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park

Sobrarbe, Spain

+121 birds+29 mammals

Where limestone cliffs rise nearly a thousand metres in sheer vertical walls, the Pyrenees reveal their most dramatic visage. Ordesa […]

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Őrség National Park

Kondorfa, Hungary

+65 birds+20 mammals

Where the Alps fade into the Carpathian foothills, a gentle mosaic of ancient forests and rolling hills defines one of […]

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Parque-Reserva Natural de las Quinientas

Berlanga, Spain

+134 birds+23 mammals

Where limestone cliffs rise dramatically above emerald valleys, a tapestry of Mediterranean ecosystems unfolds across one of Spain’s most biodiverse […]

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Pembrokeshire Coast National Park

Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom

+123 birds+28 mammals

Where jagged sea cliffs rise dramatically from churning Atlantic waters, one of Britain’s finest coastal wildernesses unfolds across southwest Wales. […]

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Península de Llevant Nature Park

Betlem, Spain

+138 birds+12 mammals

Where Mediterranean limestone cliffs plunge toward turquoise shallows, the eastern peninsula of Mallorca reveals one of Spain’s most ecologically pristine […]

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Picos de Europa National Park

Posada de Valdeón, Spain

+120 birds+17 mammals

Where limestone peaks pierce the Asturian sky at nearly 2,700 metres, three colossal massifs create a fortress of vertical rock […]

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Pollino National Park

Viggianello, Italy

+102 birds+23 mammals

Where the southern Apennines rise toward the sky in jagged limestone peaks, forests of Bosnian pine cling to precipitous slopes […]

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Posets–maladeta Natural Park

Benasque, Spain

+121 birds+29 mammals

Where granite peaks pierce the Pyrenean sky at over 3,300 metres, the Posets–Maladeta massif commands one of Spain’s most dramatic […]

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Redes Nature Park

Arrobio, Spain

+78 birds+16 mammals

Where granite gorges slice through the Cantabrian mountains, beech forests rise in cathedral-like stands above cascading streams and alpine meadows. […]

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Nature Reserve

Regional Park of the Catalan Pyrenees

Olette, France

+120 birds+30 mammals

Where granite peaks thrust skyward above cloud-laden valleys, a wild tapestry of Mediterranean and alpine ecosystems interweaves across the Franco-Spanish […]

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S’Albufera Nature Park

Platja de Muro, Spain

+133 birds+15 mammals

Dawn breaks across a mosaic of shallow lagoons and reed beds where the Mediterranean meets one of Europe’s most vital […]

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Saxon Switzerland National Park

Sebnitz, Germany

+120 birds+30 mammals

Where sandstone cliffs soar vertically above the Elbe River, a landscape of extraordinary geological drama unfolds across the German-Czech borderlands. […]

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Schwarzwald National Park

Baiersbronn, Germany

+72 birds+9 mammals

Where dense spruce forests give way to ancient beech woodlands and windswept moorlands, one of Central Europe’s most ecologically vital […]

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Serra de Montsant Nature Park

La Morera de Montsant, Spain

+129 birds+27 mammals

Where limestone ridges thrust skyward above rolling Mediterranean scrubland, a landscape of dramatic contrasts rewards the discerning traveler. Montsant’s jagged […]

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Mountain & Alpine

Sierra de Boumort

Segan, Spain

+125 birds+29 mammals

Where granite gorges slice through the Catalan Pyrenees, ancient limestone cliffs rise in dramatic ramparts above dense Mediterranean forests. This […]

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Sierra de Gredos Regional Park

Candeleda, Spain

+130 birds+10 mammals

Where granite peaks claw at 2,592 metres and alpine meadows give way to cork oak scrubland, Spain’s central highlands reveal […]

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Sierra de Guadarrama National Park

Rascafría, Spain

+141 birds+19 mammals

Where granite peaks rise abruptly from the Castilian plateau, weathered by millennia into a landscape of raw alpine drama, lies […]

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Nature Reserve

Sierra y Cañones de Guara Natural Park

Casbas de Huesca/Casbas de Uesca, Spain

+46 birds+9 mammals

Where limestone gorges slice through the Pyrenean foothills of northeastern Spain, dramatic canyon systems create a landscape of vertical cliffs […]

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Sila National Park

San Giovanni in Fiore, Italy

+133 birds+17 mammals

Where ancient beech forests rise above a high Calabrian plateau, Italy’s wilderness core reveals itself in dramatic relief. At elevations […]

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Słowiński National Park

Smołdzino, Poland

+50 birds

Where wind-sculpted dunes rise abruptly from the Baltic shoreline, a landscape of stunning ecological contrasts unfolds across Poland’s northwestern coast. […]

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Söderåsens National Park

Skåne län, Sweden

+130 birds+26 mammals

Dramatic limestone gorges slice through beech and oak forest where the Helge River carves its way southward across Skåne’s rolling […]

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Somiedo Natural Park

Pola de Somiedo, Spain

+120 birds+30 mammals

Where granite gorges cleave through the Cantabrian Mountains of northern Spain, alpine meadows roll toward beech and oak forests in […]

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South Downs National Park

Chichester, United Kingdom

+122 birds+28 mammals

Rolling chalk downlands rise and fall across southern England in a landscape sculpted by millennia of grazing and cultivation. These […]

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Stelvio National Park

Valfurva, Italy

+120 birds+30 mammals

Where granite peaks pierce the Alpine sky above 3,000 metres, three valleys converge in a realm of stark beauty and […]

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Stenshuvuds National Park

Skåne län, Sweden

+136 birds+18 mammals

Where windswept cliffs plunge toward the Baltic and ancient beech forests cling to limestone slopes, southern Sweden reveals one of […]

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Šumava National Park

Germany

+120 birds+29 mammals

Where ancient spruce forests rise and peat bogs stretch beneath mist-laden skies, the Bavarian borderlands hold one of Central Europe’s […]

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Tablas de Daimiel National Park

Daimiel, Spain

+137 birds+14 mammals

Where two rivers converge across a vast, flat plain in central Spain, shallow wetlands stretch toward an endless horizon—a landscape […]

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Ujście Warty National Park

Gorzów County, Poland

+50 birds

Where the Warta River sprawls into the Oder, vast wetlands unfold across northwestern Poland in a landscape sculpted by water […]

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Biosphere Reserve

Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve

Txatxarramendi, Spain

+113 birds+11 mammals

Where the Pyrenean foothills surrender to the Bay of Biscay, tidal estuaries carve through Basque limestone, creating one of Europe’s […]

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Valles Occidentales Nature Park

Siresa, Spain

+76 birds+11 mammals

Where granite gorges slice through the western Pyrenean foothills, steep valleys carved by ancient rivers create a mosaic of Mediterranean […]

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Vanoise National Park

Val-Cenis, France

+105 birds+21 mammals

Where granite peaks fracture the Alpine sky above 4,000 meters, Vanoise’s 1,716 square kilometers unfold as France’s oldest national park […]

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Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft National Park

Küstengewässer einschließlich Anteil am Festlandso, Germany

+131 birds+20 mammals

Shallow lagoons merge imperceptibly with reed-fringed marshes where the Baltic coast dissolves into a maze of brackish waters and low-lying […]

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Wielkopolska National Park

Trzebaw, Poland

+81 birds+8 mammals

Where glacial lakes punctuate dense mixed forests, Poland’s greatest concentration of old-growth woodland creates one of Europe’s most ecologically intact […]

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Wolin National Park

Kamień County, Poland

+96 birds+17 mammals

Where the Baltic coastline fragments into a mosaic of pine forests, freshwater lakes, and windswept dunes, northwestern Poland harbors one […]

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Yorkshire Dales National Park

North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

+104 birds+22 mammals

Where limestone escarpments rise above verdant valleys, a patchwork of moorland, grassland, and woodland creates one of England’s most ecologically […]

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