Nature parks in Germany (german: Naturparks) have been established under section 22, paragraph 4 of that country's Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG). there were 103 nature parks, comprising about 27 percent of the total land area of Germany and are brought together under the Association of German Nature Parks.Verband Deutscher Naturparke
/ref> In total there are 23,159 Protected Areas in Germany. Parks that overlap into neighbouring countries are led by Europarc. The oldest nature park is Lüneburg Heath Nature Park, whose core area was established in 1921 as a nature reserve; by 2007, it had expanded to more than four times its original area. the largest nature reserve in Germany, with , is the Southern Black Forest Nature Park. The surface area of nature parks in Germany increased by 42% between 1998 and the end of 2019 (this corresponds to around 3.0 million hectares). The 16 national parks of Germany, under paragraph 24 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act, are not listed here. ''See

List of national parks of Germany The following are the 16 national parks of Germany, sorted from North to South: Germany also has 14 Biosphere Reserves, as well as 98 nature parks. Including the national protected areas, about 25% of Germany's area is national parks or natur ...

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