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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 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 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.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 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 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 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. History ... view park profile

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