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Certified PAN Parks

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Archipelago National Park


PAN Parks Wilderness area, Archipelago, is the first unique example of a marine wilderness

This is the only continuous marine fishing free zone in the Baltic Sea. This PAN Parks Wilderness hides many secrets of marine life: for instance, small isolated... view park profile

Photo: Borjomi-Kharagauli NP archivePhoto: Borjomi-Kharagauli NP archive

Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park


PAN Parks wilderness in Borjomi-Kharagauli is located in the central part of the Low Caucasus and besides extensive forest wilderness it also includes alpine meadows full of unique and endemic species

Despite the overwhelming size of PAN Parks Wilderness,... view park profile

Photo: Nanko MinkovPhoto: Nanko Minkov

Central Balkan National Park


PAN Parks Wilderness in Central Balkan includes several large fragments of unique undisturbed beech forest in the Central Balkan Mountains

It is the first certified PAN Parks Wilderness on the Balkan Peninsula offering a sheltered habitat for all endangered iconic species typical for... view park profile

Photo: Vitantonio Dell'Orto/exuviaphoto.comPhoto: Vitantonio Dell'Orto/exuviaphoto.com

Fulufjället National Park


PAN Parks Wilderness in Fulufjället is a unique example of a homogeneous, unfragmented piece of wilderness in the Scandinavian mountains

The wilderness area of this park provides an excellent example of a boreal forest ecosystem providing homeland for Scandinavian animals such as the... view park profile

Majella National Park


PAN Parks Wilderness in Majella is a unique example of mountainous wilderness in the heart of the Apennine mountains

This is the first certified PAN Parks Wilderness not only in Italy but in the Mediterranean. This proved that PAN Parks Wilderness can be identified not only in remote... view park profile

Oulanka National Park


The PAN Parks wilderness area in Oulanka is a unique example of a meandering river ecosystem surrounded by untouched boreal forest near the Arctic Circle

It is the first certified piece of PAN Parks Wilderness in Finland with the ambition to protect fragments of unlogged boreal forest... view park profile

Photo: Viktor GritsukPhoto: Viktor Gritsuk

Paanajärvi National Park


PAN Parks Wilderness area of Paanajärvi represents a pristine unfragmented example of large boreal forest close to the Arctic Circle

Untouched boreal forests are homeland not only for Brown bears, lynx and the wolf, but also for the very rare wild reindeer. Scale of wilderness in this... view park profile

Photo: PGNP ArchivePhoto: PGNP Archive

Peneda-Gerês National Park


The last remnants of natural forest in Portugal form the nucleus of the PAN Parks Wilderness area in Peneda-Gerês

Decreasing and abandoned grazing have created an opportunity for wilderness restoration thus adding several thousand hectares of mountainous wilderness to the existing... view park profile

Photo: Andreas BeckmannPhoto: Andreas Beckmann

Retezat National Park


PAN Parks Wilderness area in Retezat is the first certified piece of wilderness in the Carpathian Mountains, a mountain range well-known in Europe for its extensive wild forests


Retezat’s wilderness presents the wildest and the best protected fragment of the Retezat mountains. It... view park profile

Rila National Park


The long valleys of the Rila mountain hide many wilderness surprises such as the wide range of wilderness species

The wilderness area of Rila is the second certified PAN Parks Wilderness area in Bulgaria which proves that this country has great wilderness values. The park hosts the full... view park profile

Soomaa National Park


Estonian Soomaa’s freshwater wilderness boasts the largest raised bog complex in Europe

They even have a ’fifth season’ – as claimed by locals – when naturally meandering rivers create drastic floods changing the landscape.

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