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Baikal National Park

Ольхонский район, Russia

+124 birds+27 mammals

Where ancient mountains plunge into Earth’s deepest freshwater lake, a landscape of dramatic contrasts unfolds across the southern shores of […]

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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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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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Butrint National Park

Vagalat, Albania

+133 birds+17 mammals

Where Ionian breezes meet the Corfu Channel, saltmarsh and freshwater lagoons create a mosaic of habitats that pulse with life […]

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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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Camargue Regional Nature Park

Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France

+122 birds+30 mammals

Where the Rhône Delta sprawls into the Mediterranean, a landscape of stark and haunting beauty emerges—vast salt marshes punctuated by […]

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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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D’Armorique Regional Nature Park

Le Faou, France

+124 birds+30 mammals

Where granite ridges meet Atlantic moorland, one of Brittany’s wildest regions reveals itself in layers of ecological richness. The landscape […]

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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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Dell’Appennino Tosco-Emiliano National Park

Reggio nell'Emilia, Italy

+120 birds+30 mammals

Where the Apennine spine rises between Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, beech forests give way to windswept alpine meadows and dramatic limestone […]

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Delle Incisioni Rupestri di Naquane National Park

Capo di Ponte, Italy

+120 birds+30 mammals

Where Alpine valleys descend into the Lombardy foothills, glacier-carved granite formations rise in dramatic tiers above the Oglio River valley. […]

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Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park

Sospirolo, Italy

+63 birds+15 mammals

Where jagged limestone towers pierce a sky of impossible blue, the Bellunesi Dolomites unfold as one of Europe’s most dramatic […]

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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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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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Fertő–hanság National Park

Fertőszéplak, Hungary

+12 birds+27 mammals

Where shallow waters meet vast reed beds beneath wide Hungarian skies, one of Central Europe’s most dynamic wetland complexes unfolds […]

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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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Javakheti National Park

Bozali, Georgia

+148 birds+6 mammals

Dawn breaks over a high-altitude plateau where volcanic peaks pierce the Caucasian sky, their slopes cloaked in alpine meadows that […]

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Kerkini Lake National Park

Serres, Greece

+132 birds+25 mammals

Where the Strymon River winds through northeastern Greece, a sprawling freshwater lake mirrors the dramatic Belasitsa Mountains, creating one of […]

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L’Albufera Nature Park

València, Spain

+130 birds+22 mammals

Dawn breaks over a vast lagoon where freshwater meets saltmarsh, creating one of Spain’s most biodiverse wetland mosaics. This protected […]

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Wetland

L’Empordà Nature Park Marshes

Empuriabrava, Spain

+127 birds+26 mammals

Where the Pyrenean foothills flatten into the Mediterranean, freshwater marshes, reed beds, and lagoons create one of Spain’s most vital […]

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Lagunas de Archidona Nature Reserve

Archidona, Spain

+133 birds+25 mammals

Where shallow lagoons mirror the vast Spanish sky, a patchwork of reed beds and freshwater marshes creates one of Iberia’s […]

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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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Losiny Ostrov National Park

Balashikhinsky District, Russia

+120 birds+30 mammals

Ancient pine and birch forests sweep across undulating terrain where the Moskva River winds through Moscow’s northeastern reaches, creating a […]

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Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park

Dunum, Germany

+124 birds+28 mammals

Tidal mud flats stretch to the horizon where the North Sea exhales and inhales twice daily, sculpting one of Europe’s […]

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Marjal Pego-Oliva Nature Park

Molinell, Spain

+132 birds+19 mammals

Where freshwater marshes meet Mediterranean scrubland, one of Spain’s most vital wetland systems unfolds across the Valencian coast. Brackish lagoons […]

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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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Montaña de Montserrat Nature Park

Marganell, Spain

+126 birds+30 mammals

Where granite monoliths erupt from the Mediterranean scrubland like cathedral spires, an otherworldly landscape unfolds across Catalonia’s most dramatic mountain […]

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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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Montseny Nature Park

Viladrau, Spain

+105 birds+22 mammals

The Montseny Natural Park is one of Catalonia’s most remarkable protected areas, offering an extraordinary blend of biodiversity, scenic landscapes, […]

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Mount Parnitha National Park

Municipal Unit of Acharnes, Greece

+135 birds+15 mammals

Where granite ridges rise dramatically above the Athenian sprawl, a remarkable wilderness unfolds across nearly 38,000 hectares of Mediterranean terrain. […]

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Nuuksio National Park

Espoo, Finland

+90 birds+12 mammals

Where granite bedrock meets boreal forest within easy reach of Helsinki, a wilderness of unexpected grandeur unfolds across nearly 200 […]

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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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Parc del Montnegre i el Corredor

Font-Montnegre, Spain

+110 birds+24 mammals

Where the Mediterranean scrublands rise into pine-clad ridges, a mosaic of ancient forests and rocky outcrops defines one of Catalonia’s […]

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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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Pindos National Park

Ioannina Regional Unit, Greece

+128 birds+22 mammals

Where granite peaks pierce the clouds above Greece’s spine, the Pindos Mountains harbour one of southern Europe’s wildest and most […]

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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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Puigventós Nature Reserve

Olesa de Montserrat, Spain

+123 birds+28 mammals

Where the limestone ridges of Catalonia fold into Mediterranean scrubland, a patchwork of cork oak forests and rocky outcrops creates […]

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Racha-Lechkhum-Kvemo Svaneti Planned National Park

Zeskho, Georgia

+91 birds+11 mammals

Where granite gorges cut through the southern Caucasus, pristine alpine meadows cascade downward into temperate beech forests of extraordinary primeval […]

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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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Rila National Park

Mala tsarkva, Bulgaria

+131 birds+20 mammals

Where granite peaks pierce the Balkan skyline, pristine conifer forests blanket steep mountain slopes in an ecological tapestry that has […]

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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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Samaria National Park

Chania Regional Unit, Greece

+138 birds+12 mammals

Where granite gorges plunge nearly a kilometer into the Cretan landscape, a dramatic wilderness unfolds across 4,850 hectares of Crete’s […]

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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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Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wattenmeer National Park

Germany

+130 birds+21 mammals

Twice daily, the North Sea withdraws from an immense stage of mud, sand, and salt marsh, revealing one of Europe’s […]

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Serra de Mariola Nature Park

Bocairent, Spain

+95 birds+13 mammals

Where limestone ridges claw skyward across the inland Valencia region, a landscape of dramatic contrasts unfolds across 225 square kilometers. […]

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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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Sibillini Mountains National Park

Ussita, Italy

+123 birds+27 mammals

Where limestone ridges claw toward 2,476 metres, ancient beech forests surrender to alpine meadows and windswept crags that define the […]

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Sierra de Andújar Nature Park

Our Lady of Cabeza, Spain

+105 birds+20 mammals

Where granite gorges slice through Mediterranean scrubland and cork forests cascade down Andalusian hillsides, one of Spain’s most pristine wilderness […]

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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 Tejeda, Almijara y Alhama Nature Park

Frigiliana, Spain

+127 birds+24 mammals

Where limestone peaks thrust skyward between the Costa del Sol and the Axarquia plain, dramatic gorges and cascading waterfalls carve […]

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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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Sounio National Park

Municipal Unit of Ayios Konstantinos, Greece

+135 birds+15 mammals

Where the Athenian coast fractures into dramatic rocky promontories, ancient marble cliffs plunge toward the Aegean in a landscape that […]

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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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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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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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Vikos–Aoos National Park

Ioannina Regional Unit, Greece

+126 birds+24 mammals

Where granite gorges plunge nearly 1,000 metres through the Pindus Mountains, one of Europe’s most dramatic wilderness areas unfolds. The […]

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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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