Käina Bay-Kassari Landscape Conservation Area is a

nature park A nature park, or sometimes natural park, is a designation for a protected area by means of long-term land planning, sustainable resource management and limitation of agricultural and real estate developments. These valuable landscapes are pres ...

situated in

Hiiu County Hiiu County ( or ''Hiiumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia, being the smallest county both in terms of area and population. It consists of Hiiumaa (German language, German and ), the second largest island of Estonia, and several smaller isl ...

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

. Its area is 5681 ha.UNEP-WCMC (2021). Protected Area Profile for Käina Lahe-Kassari Maastikukaitseala from the World Database of Protected Areas, March 2021. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net The protected area was designated in 1962 to protect

Käina Bay Käina Bay () is almost isolated and very shallow approximately marine area between the Estonian islands Hiiumaa and Kassari, which is connected to the surrounding Väinameri and adjacent Vaemla Bay via three tiny channels - Orjaku channel ...

and

Kassari Kassari is an Estonian island. It has an area of 19.3 km2 with a population of around 300. It has a museum dedicated to Oskar Kallas and Aino Kallas. The philosopher and pedagogue Ülo Kaevats (1947–2015) was born on Kassari. File:T ...

island semi-natural communities. In 1998, the protected area was redesigned to the landscape conservation area.

References

Nature reserves in Estonia Geography of Hiiu County {{Estonia-stub