World Network of Biosphere Reserves in Europe and North America

Under UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Reserve Programme, there are currently 297 biosphere reserves recognized as part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves in Europe and North America. These are distributed across 36 countries in the region</http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ecological-sciences/biosphere-reserves/europe-north-america/>.

The list

Below is the list of biosphere reserves in Europe and North America, organized by country/territory, along with the year these were designated as part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.

The list does not include the Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean, a biosphere reserve shared between Morocco and Spain, which has been classified as part of the Arab States region.

Austria

Lobau (1977)
Neusiedler See (1977)
Grosses Walsertal (2000)
Wienerwald (2005)
(Gossenköllesee (1977) - withdrawn in 2014)
(Gurgler Kamm (1977) - withdrawn in 2014)

Belarus

Berezinskiy (1978)
Belovezhskaya Pushcha (1993)
Pribuzhskoye-Polesie (2004)

Bulgaria

Steneto (1977)
Alibotouch (1977)
Bistrichko Branichté (1977)
Boitine (1977)
Djendema (1977)
Doupkata (1977)
Doupki-Djindjiritza (1977)
Kamtchia (1977)
Koupena (1977)
Mantaritza (1977)
Ouzounboudjak (1977)
Parangalitza (1977)
Srébarna (1977)
Tchervenata sténa (1977)
Tchoupréné (1977)
Tsaritchina (1977)

Canada

Mont Saint Hilaire (1978)
Waterton (1979)
Long Point (1986)
Riding Mountain (1986)
Charlevoix (1988)
Niagara Escarpment (1990)
Clayoquot Sound (2000)
Redberry Lake (2000)
Lac Saint-Pierre (2000)
Mount Arrowsmith (2000)
Southwest Nova (2001)
Frontenac Arch (2002)
Georgian Bay Littoral (2004)
Manicouagan Uapishka (2007)
Fundy (2007)
Bras d'Or Lake (2011)

Croatia

Velebit Mountain (1977)
Mura Drava Danube (2012)

Czech Republic

Krivoklátsko (1977)
Trebon Basin (1977)
Sumava (1990)
Bílé Karpaty (1996)
Lower Morava (2003)

France

Commune de Fakarava (1977)
Vallée du Fango (1977)
Camargue (Rhône River Delta) (1977)
Cévennes (1984)
Iroise (1988)
Mont Ventoux (1990)
Archipel de la Guadeloupe (1992)
Luberon (1997)
Forest of Fontainebleau (1998)
Dordogne Watershed (2012)
Marais Audomarois (2013)
Gorges du Gardon (2015)

France & Germany

Palatinate Forest-North Vosges (1998)

France & Italy

Monte Viso (2014)

Germany

Middle Elbe (1979)
Vessertal-Thuringian Forest (1979)
Bavarian Forest (1981)
Berchtesgaden Alps (1990)
Wadden Sea and Hallig Islands of Schleswig-Holstein (1990)
Schorfheide-Chorin (1990)
Spreewald (1991)
Rügen (1991)
Rhön (1991)
Lower Saxon Wadden Sea (1992)
Hamburg Wadden Sea (1992)
Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape (1996)
Schaalsee (2000)
Bliesgau (2009)
Swabian Jura (2009)

See also: Media related to Biosphere reserves in Germany at Wikimedia Commons

Greece

Gorge of Samaria (1981)
Mount Olympus (1981)

Hungary

Aggteleki NP (Aggteleki Park)(1979)
Hortobágyi NP (Hortobágyi Nemzeti Park) (1979)
Kiskunsági NP (Kiskunsági Nemzeti Park)(1979)
Pilis (1980)
Fertő Lake (Fertő-Hanság Nemzeti Park) (1991) UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1979

Ireland

North Bull Island (1981)
Killarney (1982)

Israel

Mount Carmel (1996)

Italy

Collemeluccio-Montedimezzo (1977)
Circeo (1977)
Miramare (1979)
Cilento and Vallo di Diano (1997)
Somma-Vesuvio and Miglio d'Oro (1997)
Valle del Ticino (2002)
Tuscan Islands (2003)
Selva Pisana (2004)
Monviso (2013)
Sila (2014)

Latvia

North Vidzeme (1997)

Lithuania

Žuvintas (2002)

Montenegro

Tara River Basin (1976)

Netherlands

Waddensea Area (1986)

Poland

Main article: Biosphere Reserves of Poland

Babia Góra Massif (1976)
Białowieża Forest (1976)
Łuknajno Lake (1976)
Słowiński (1976)
Tatra Mountains (1992) (Cross-border with Slovakia)
Karkonosze (1992) (shared with the Czech Republic)
East Carpathian (1998) (Cross-border with Slovakia and Ukraine)
Kampinos Forest (2000)
West Polesie (2002) (Cross-border with Ukraine and Belarus) (2012)
Tuchola Forest (2010)

Portugal

Portugal & Spain

Geres/Xures (2009)
Meseta Ibérica (2015)

Romania

Pietrosul Mare (1979)
Retezat (1979)

Romania & Ukraine

Danube Delta (1998)

Russian Federation

Kavkazskiy (1978)
Okskiy (1978)
Prioksko-Terrasnyi (1978)
Sikhote-Alin (1978)
Tsentral'no-Chernozemny (1978)
Nevski Prospekhetee (1984)
Kronotskiy (1984)
Laplandskiy (1984)
Pechoro-Ilychskiy (1984)
Sayano-Shushenskiy (1984)
Sokhondinskiy (1984)
Voronezhskiy (1984)
Tsentral'nolesnoy (1985)
Barguzinskyi (1986)
Baikalskyi (1986)
Tzentralnosibirskii (1986)
Chernyje Zemli (1993)
Taimyrsky (1995)
Ubsunorskaya Kotlovina (1997)
Daursky (1997)
Teberda (1997)
Katunsky (2000)
Nerusso-Desnianskoe-Polesie (2001)
Visimskiy (2001)
Vodolozerskiy (2001)
Commander Islands (2002)
Darvinskiy (2002)
Nijegorodskoe Zavolje (2002)
Smolensk Lakeland (2002)
Ugra (2002)
Far East Marine (2003)
Kedrovaya Pad (2004)
Kenozerskiy (2004)
Valdaisky (2004)
Khankaiskiy (2005)
Middle Volga Integrated Biosphere Reserve (2006)
Great Volzhsko-Kamsky (2007)
Rostovsky (2008)
Altaisky (2009)

Serbia

Golija-Studenica (2001)

Slovakia

Slovenský Kras (1977)
Poľana (1990)
Tatra Mountains (1992) (Cross-border with Poland)
East Carpathian (1998) (Cross-border with Slovakia and Ukraine)

Slovenia

Julian Alps (2003)
The Karst (2004)

Spain

Grazalema (1977)
Ordesa-Viñamala (1977)
Montseny Natural Park (1978)
Doñana (1980)
Mancha Húmeda (1980)
Las Sierras de Cazorla y Segura (1983)
Marismas del Odiel (1983)
La Palma (1983)
Urdaibai (1984)
Sierra Nevada (1986)
Cuenca Alta del Río Manzanares (1992)
Lanzarote (1993)
Menorca (1993)
Sierra de las Nieves y su Entomo (1995)
Cabo de Gata-Nijar (1997)
Isla de El Hierro (2000)
Bardenas Reales (2000)
Muniellos, Gran Cantábrica (2000)
Somiedo (2000)
Redes (2001)
Las Dehesas de Sierra Moreno (2002)
Terras do Miño (2002)
Valle de Laciana (2003)
Picos de Europa (2003)
Monfragüe (2003)
Valles del Jubera, Leza, Cidacos y Alhama (2003)
Babia (2004)
Alto de Bernesga (2005)
Los Valles de Omaňa y Luna (2005)
Los Argüellos (2005)
Área de Allariz (2005)
Gran Canaria (2005)
Sierra del Rincón (2005)
Os Ancares Lucenses e Montes de Cervantes (2006)
Los Ancares Leoneses (2006)
Las Sierras de Béjar y Francia (2006)
Río Eo, Oscos e Terras de Buron (2007)
Fuerteventura (2009)
As Mariñas Coruñesas e Terras do Mandeo (2013)
Terres de l'Ebre (2013)
Real Sitio de San Ildefonso-El Espinar (2013)
Macizo de Anaga (2015)

Sweden

Lake Torne Area (1986)
Kristianstad Vattenrike (2005)

Switzerland

Turkey

Camili (2005)

Ukraine

Main article: Biosphere Preserves of Ukraine

Chernomorskiy (1984)
Askaniya-Nova (1985)
Carpathian (1992)
East Carpathian (1998) (Cross-border with Slovakia and Ukraine)
Shatskiy (2002)
Desnianskyi (2009)

United Kingdom

Beinn Eighe (1976)
Braunton Burrows (1976), extended 2002 as North Devon's Biosphere Reserve
Cairnsmore of Fleet (1976)
Biosffer Dyfi (1976)
Loch Druidibeg (1976)
Moor House-Upper Teesdale (1976)
North Norfolk Coast (1976)
Silver Flowe-Merrick Kells (1976)
Taynish (1977)
Galloway and southern Ayrshire (2012)
Brighton and Lewes Downs (2014)

United States of America

Aleutian Islands (1976)
Big Bend (1976)
Cascade Head (1976)
Central Plains (1976)
Channel Islands (1976)
Coram (1976)
Denali (1976)
Desert (1976)
Everglades & Dry Tortugas (1976)
Fraser (1976)
Glacier (1976)
H.J. Andrews (1976)
Hubbard Brook (1976)
Jornada (1976)
Luquillo (1976)
Noatak (1976)
Olympic (1976)
Organ Pipe Cactus (1976)
Rocky Mountain (1976)
San Dimas (1976)
San Joaquin (1976)
Sequoia-Kings Canyon (1976)
Stanislaus-Tuolumne (1976)
Three Sisters (1976)
Virgin Islands (1976)
Yellowstone (1976)
Beaver Creek (1976)
Konza Prairie (1978)
Niwot Ridge (1979)
University of Michigan Biological Station (1979)
Virginia Coast (1979)
Hawaiian Islands (1980)
Isle Royale (1980)
Big Thicket (1981)
Guanica (1981)
California Coast Ranges (1983)
Central Gulf Coast Plain (1983)
South Atlantic Coastal Plain (1983)
Mojave and Colorado Deserts (1984)
Carolinian-South Atlantic (1986)
- Yawkey Wildlife Center
- Santee Coastal Reserve
- Washoo Reserve
- Capers island and Hobcaw Barony
- Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge
Glacier Bay-Admiralty Island (1986)
Golden Gate (1988)
New Jersey Pinelands (1988)
Southern Appalachian (1988)
Champlain-Adirondak (1989)
Mammoth Cave Area (1990)
Land Between the Lakes (1991)

External links

List of UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves of Europe & North America

UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme World Network of Biosphere Reserves

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