Protected areas of

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

include one national park ( sl, narodni park), three regional parks (), several natural parks (), and hundreds of natural monuments () and monuments of designed nature (). They cover about 12.5% of the Slovenian territory. Under the Wild Birds Directive, 26 sites totalling roughly 25% of the nation's land are "Special Protected Areas"; the Natura 2000 proposal would increase the totals to 260 sites and 32% of national territory.

National parks

Triglav National Park Triglav National Park (TNP) ( sl, Triglavski narodni park) is the only national park in Slovenia. It was established in its modern form in 1981 and is located in the northwestern part of the country, respectively the southeastern part of the Alp ...

Regional parks

* Inner Carniola Regional Park *

Kozje Park Kozje (, german: Drachenburg) is a small town in eastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Kozje. The settlement of Kozje lies in the centre of the municipality, from Celje, from Ljubljana, and from Rogaška Slatina. It is the m ...

* Škocjan Caves Regional Park

Natural parks

* Beka Natural Park * Boč Natural Park * Drava Natural Park * Golte Natural Park * Snežnik Castle Complex Natural Park * Jareninski Dol Natural Park * Jeruzalem–Ormož Hills Natural Park * Kamenščak–Hrastovec Natural Park * Kolpa Natural Park * Kum Natural Park * Lahinja Natural Park * Ljubljana Marsh Natural Park * Ljutomer Pond and Jeruzalem Hills Natural Park * Logar Valley Natural Park * Lake Maribor Natural Park * Mašun Natural Park * Mrzlica Natural Park * Nanos Natural Park * Negova and Lake Negova Natural Park * Planina Plain Natural Park * Polhov Gradec Hills Natural Park * Ponikve Karst Natural Park * Porezen–Davča Natural Park * Rače Ponds–Požeg Natural Park * Račna Karst Field Natural Park * Rak Škocjan Natural Park * Roban Cirque Natural Park * Sečovelje Salina Natural Park * Municipality of Domžale Revolutionary Traditions Memorial Park * Štanjel Natural Park * Štatenberg Natural Park * Strunjan Natural Park * Šturmovci Natural Park * Tivoli–Rožnik Hill–Šiška Hill Natural Park * Topla Natural Park * Trnovo Forest Natural Park * Udin Forest Natural Park ( sl, Udin boršt) * Moravci Drillholes and Baths Natural Park * Žabljek Natural Park * Zajčja Dobrava Natural Park * Zelenci Natural Park * Zgornja Idrijca Natural Park

Natural monuments

On 1 January 2012, there were 1276 natural monuments in Slovenia.

Natura 2000 areas

* Banjšice * Breginj Stol–Planja *

Lake Cerknica Lake Cerknica (; sl, Cerkniško jezero, german: Zirknitzer See) is an intermittent lake in the southern part of the Cerknica Polje, a karst polje in Inner Carniola, a region in southwestern Slovenia. The lake, oriented in the Dinaric direction ...

* Drava * Dravinja Valley * Goričko *

Jelovica Jelovica () is a karst plateau in northwestern Slovenia. It is the easternmost part of the Julian Alps and is overgrown by spruce forest. Partisan Peak ( sl, Partizanski vrh), originally known as Mount Kotlič, located on the southern part of the ...

Julian Alps The Julian Alps ( sl, Julijske Alpe, it, Alpi Giulie, , ) are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps that stretch from northeastern Italy to Slovenia, where they rise to 2,864 m at Mount Triglav, the highest peak in Slovenia. A large p ...

Kamnik–Savinja Alps The Kamnik–Savinja Alps ( sl, Kamniško-Savinjske Alpe) are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps. They lie in northern Slovenia, except for the northernmost part, which lies in Austria. The western part of the range was named the Ka ...

and the Eastern Karawanks *

Karawanks The Karawanks or Karavankas or Karavanks ( sl, Karavanke; german: Karawanken, ) are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps on the border between Slovenia to the south and Austria to the north. With a total length of in an east–west dir ...

* Kočevje Region–Kolpa * Kozje Region–Dobrava–Jovsi * Krakovo Forest–Šentjernej Plain *

Karst Plateau The Karst Plateau or the Karst region ( sl, Kras, it, Carso), also locally called Karst, is a karst plateau region extending across the border of southwestern Slovenia and northeastern Italy. It lies between the Vipava Valley, the low hills su ...

Ljubljana Marsh The Ljubljana Marsh ( sl, Ljubljansko barje), located south of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, is the largest marsh in the country. It covers or 0.8% of the Slovene territory. It is administered by the municipalities of Borovnica, Brezovica ...

Mur River The Mur () or Mura (; ; ; Prekmurje Slovene: ''Müra''Novak, Vilko. 2006. ''Slovar stare knjižne prekmurščine''. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, pp. 262, 269. or ''Möra'') is a river in Central Europe rising in the Hohe Tauern national park of th ...

* Nanoščica–River Basin * Planina Karst Field * Pohorje * Sava Hills–Mountain Walls * Sečovlje Saltpans * Škocjan Inlet * Slovene Hills–Lowlands * Snežnik–Pivka * Trnovo Forest * Trnovo Forest–Southern Outhskirt and Nanos

References

External links

Environmental Atlas of the Environment of Slovenia
Contains detailed maps of the Natura 2000 sites in Slovenia. Environmental Agency of Slovenia.
Natura 2000 in Slovenia
Ministry of the Agriculture and Environment of the Republic of Slovenia. {{DEFAULTSORT:Protected Areas Of Slovenia

Nature conservation in Slovenia

National parks A national park is a natural park in use for conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individua ...

Protected areas Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...