Under
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a List of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international coope ...
’s
Man and the Biosphere Programme
Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific program, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the improvement of relationships between people and their environments.
MAB's work engag ...
, there are 302
biosphere reserves
Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific program, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the improvement of relationships between people and their environments.
MAB's work engag ...
recognized as part of the
World Network of Biosphere Reserves
The UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) covers internationally designated protected areas, known as biosphere reserves
Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific program, launched in 1971 by UNESCO ...
in Europe and North America (as of April 2016). These are distributed across 36 countries in the region.
Biosphere reserves operating under the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme aim to achieve three mandate management objectives of conservation, sustainable socio-economic development, and logistic support.
The list
Below is the list of biosphere reserves in Europe and North America, organized by country/territory, along with the year these were designated as part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
The list does not include the ''Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean'', a biosphere reserve shared between Morocco and Spain, which has been classified as part of the
Arab States region.
Albania
*
Ohrid-Prespa (2014) (shared with
North Macedonia
North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...
)
Austria
* (Gossenköllesee (1977) - withdrawn in 2014)
* (Gurgler Kamm (1977) - withdrawn in 2014)
* (
Lobau (1977) - withdrawn in 2016)
* (
Neusiedler See (1977) - withdrawn in 2016)
*
Großwalsertal (since 2000)
*
Wienerwald (since 2005)
* Salzburger Lungau & Kärntner Nockberge (since 2012)
Belarus
*
Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve (1978)
*
Belovezhskaya Pushcha (1993)
*
West Polesie Transboundary Biosphere Reserve (2004)
Bulgaria
* ( (1977, withdrawn in 2017)
[
* ( Kamtchia (1977, withdrawn in 2017))][
* ( (1977, withdrawn in 2017))][
* (Steneto (1977, merged in 2017))
* (Boatin (1977, merged in 2017))
* (Tsarichina (1977, merged in 2017))
* (]Dzhendema
Dzhendema or Djendema ( bg, Джендема ) is an area in the Balkan mountain range in Bulgaria. The Southern Dzhendem, or just Dzhendema, occupies the southern slopes of Mount Botev . It was established as reserve on March 28, 1953. Djendema ...
(1977, merged in 2017))
* Ali Botush (1977)
* Bistrishko Branishte
Bistrishko Branishte ( bg, Бистришко бранище) is a nature reserve in the Vitosha Nature Park on Vitosha Mountain in Bulgaria.
It was established in 1934, together with Vitosha Nature Park. Since 1977 it has been a biosphere r ...
(1977)
* Bayuvi Dupki–Dzhindzhiritsa (1977) (in Pirin National Park)
* Mantaritza (1977)
* Uzunbodzhak (1977)
* Parangalitsa (1977) (in Rila National Park)
* Srebarna (1977)
* (1977)
* Chuprene (1977)
* Central Balkan National Park (created in 2017 by merging four extant reserves)[
]
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by to ...
* Mont Saint-Hilaire (1978)
* Waterton (1979)
* Long Point (1986)
* Riding Mountain (1986)
* Charlevoix (1988)
* Niagara Escarpment
The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment, or cuesta, in Canada and the United States that runs predominantly east–west from New York through Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin, and into Illinois. The escarpment is most famous as the cliff ove ...
(1990)
* Clayoquot Sound (2000)
* Redberry Lake (2000)
* Lac Saint-Pierre
Lake Saint Pierre (; abe, Nebesek) is a lake in Quebec, Canada, a widening of the Saint Lawrence River between Sorel-Tracy and Trois-Rivières. It is located downstream, and northeast, of Montreal; and upstream, and southwest, of Quebec City. Th ...
(2000)
* Mount Arrowsmith (2000)
* Southwest Nova (2001)
* Frontenac Arch (2002)
* Georgian Bay
Georgian Bay (french: Baie Georgienne) is a large bay of Lake Huron, in the Laurentia bioregion. It is located entirely within the borders of Ontario, Canada. The main body of the bay lies east of the Bruce Peninsula and Manitoulin Island. T ...
(2004)
* Manicouagan Uapishka (2007)
* Fundy (2007)
* Bras d'Or Lake
Bras d'Or Lake ( Mi'kmawi'simk: Pitupaq) is an irregular estuary in the centre of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. It has a connection to the open sea, and is tidal. It also has inflows of fresh water from rivers, making the bracki ...
(2011)
* Beaver Hills (2016)
* Tsá Tué (2016)
* Howe Sound
Howe Sound (french: Baie (de /d')Howe, squ, Átl'ka7tsem, Nexwnéwu7ts, Txwnéwu7ts) is a roughly triangular sound, that joins a network of fjords situated immediately northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia. It was designated as a UNESCO Biosp ...
(2021)
Croatia
* Velebit Mountain (1977)
Mura Drava Danube
(2012)
Czech Republic
* Krivoklátsko (1977)
* Trebon Basin (1977)
* Sumava (1990)
* Bílé Karpaty (1996)
* Lower Morava (2003)
Czech Republic and Poland
* Krkonose / Karkonosze (1992)
Denmark
* North-East Greenland (1977)
* Møn
Møn () is an island in south-eastern Denmark. Until 1 January 2007, it was a municipality in its own right but it is now part of the municipality of Vordingborg, after merging with the former municipalities of Langebæk, Præstø, and Vordin ...
(2017)
Estonia
* West Estonian Archipelago (1990)
Finland
* North Karelian (1992)
** Petkeljärvi National Park
** Patvinsuo National Park
* Archipelago Sea Area (1994)
France
* Commune de Fakarava (1977)
* Vallée du Fango (1977)
* Camargue
Camargue (, also , , ; oc, label= Provençal, Camarga) is a region of France located south of Arles, between the Mediterranean Sea and the two arms of the Rhône delta. The eastern arm is called the ''Grand Rhône''; the western one is the '' ...
(Rhône River Delta) (1977)
* Cévennes (1984)
* Iroise
Iroise () or the Iroise Sea (french: mer d'Iroise ; br, An Hirwazh) is the part of the Atlantic Ocean which stretches from the Ile de Sein to Ushant off the coast of Brittany in north-western France. It is contained within the Celtic Sea, border ...
(1988)
* Mont Ventoux
Mont Ventoux (; oc, Ventor, label= Provençal ) is a mountain in the Provence region of southern France, located some northeast of Carpentras, Vaucluse. On the north side, the mountain borders the department of Drôme. At , it is the highest ...
(1990)
* Archipel de la Guadeloupe (1992)
* Luberon
The Luberon ( or ; Provençal: ''Leberon'' or ''Leberoun'' ) is a massif in central Provence in Southern France, part of the French Prealps. It has a maximum elevation of and an area of about . It is composed of three mountain ranges (from w ...
(1997)
* Forest of Fontainebleau
The forest of Fontainebleau (french: Forêt de Fontainebleau, or ''Forêt de Bière'', meaning "forest of heather") is a mixed deciduous forest lying southeast of Paris, France. It is located primarily in the arrondissement of Fontaineblea ...
(1998)
* Dordogne
Dordogne ( , or ; ; oc, Dordonha ) is a large rural department in Southwestern France, with its prefecture in Périgueux. Located in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region roughly half-way between the Loire Valley and the Pyrenees, it is named ...
Watershed (2012)
* Marais Audomarois (2013)
* Gorges du Gardon
The Gorges du Gardon form a canyon carved out by the river Gardon, a tributary of the Rhône with its source in the Cévennes. They are located in the heart of the Gard department in the Occitanie region.
The local nature reserve of the Gorges d ...
(2015)
France and Germany
* Palatinate Forest–North Vosges (1998)
France and Italy
* Monte Viso (2014)
Germany
* Middle Elbe (1979)
* Vessertal-Thuringian Forest
The Thuringian Forest (''Thüringer Wald'' in German), is a mountain range in the southern parts of the German state of Thuringia, running northwest to southeast. Skirting from its southerly source in foothills to a gorge on its north-west side i ...
(1979)
* Bavarian Forest
The village of Zell in the Bavarian Forest
The Bavarian Forest (German: ' or ''Bayerwald''; bar, Boarischa Woid) is a wooded, low-mountain region in Bavaria, Germany that is about 100 kilometres long. It runs along the Czech border and is co ...
(1981)
* Berchtesgaden Alps
The Berchtesgaden Alps (german: Berchtesgadener Alpen) are a mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps, named after the market town of Berchtesgaden located in the centre. The central part belongs to the Berchtesgadener Land district of sou ...
(1990)
* Wadden Sea and Hallig Islands of Schleswig-Holstein (1990)
* Schorfheide-Chorin (1990)
* Spreewald
The Spree Forest (German: ''Spreewald'', ; Lower Sorbian: ''Błota'', i.e. 'the Swamps') is a large inland delta of the river Spree, and a historical cultural landscape located in the region of (Lower) Lusatia, in the state of Brandenburg, Germ ...
(1991)
* Rügen
Rügen (; la, Rugia, ) is Germany's largest island. It is located off the Pomeranian coast in the Baltic Sea and belongs to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
The "gateway" to Rügen island is the Hanseatic city of Stralsund, where ...
(1991)
* Rhön (1991)
* Lower Saxon Wadden Sea (1992)
* Hamburg Wadden Sea (1992)
* Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape (1996)
* Schaalsee
Schaalsee is a lake in Germany. It forms part of the border between Schleswig-Holstein (district Herzogtum Lauenburg) and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (districts Ludwigslust-Parchim and Nordwestmecklenburg). The town of Zarrentin is located on its sout ...
(2000)
* Bliesgau
The Bliesgau is a region in the state of Saarland in the south-west of Germany and borders with France. It is named after the River Blies, which is a tributary to the Saar.
Blieskastel is the principal town of the district. Other towns in the ...
(2009)
* Swabian Alb
The Swabian Jura (german: Schwäbische Alb , more rarely ), sometimes also named Swabian Alps in English, is a mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending from southwest to northeast and in width. It is named after the region of ...
(2009)
* Black Forest
The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is ...
(2017)[
]
Greece
* Gorge of Samaria (1981)
* Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus (; el, Όλυμπος, Ólympos, also , ) is the highest mountain in Greece. It is part of the Olympus massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located in the Olympus Range on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, be ...
(1981)
Hungary
* Aggtelek National Park
Aggtelek National Park ( hu, Aggteleki Nemzeti Park) is a national park in Northern Hungary, in the Aggtelek Karst region. The most significant values of the national park are the special surface formations and caves in this limestone landscape.
...
(1979)
* Hortobágy National Park (1979)
* Kiskunság National Park
Kiskunság National Park ( hu, Kiskunsági Nemzeti Park) is a national park located in Danube–Tisza Interfluve mainly in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary. It was created in 1975 and declared a biosphere reserve by the UNESCO. The park covers an ...
(1979)
* Pilis (1980)
* Fertő-Hanság National Park (1991) UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1979
Ireland
* North Bull Island (1981)
* Killarney
Killarney ( ; ga, Cill Airne , meaning 'church of sloes') is a town in County Kerry, southwestern Ireland. The town is on the northeastern shore of Lough Leane, part of Killarney National Park, and is home to St Mary's Cathedral, Ross Cast ...
(1982)
Isle of Man
* Isle of Man
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in Europ ...
(2016) - entire territory and territorial seas
Israel
* Mount Carmel
Mount Carmel ( he, הַר הַכַּרְמֶל, Har haKarmel; ar, جبل الكرمل, Jabal al-Karmil), also known in Arabic as Mount Mar Elias ( ar, link=no, جبل مار إلياس, Jabal Mār Ilyās, lit=Mount Saint Elias/ Elijah), is a ...
(1996)
* Megiddo (2011; formerly " Ramat Menashe")[
]
Italy
* Collemeluccio-Montedimezzo (1977)
* Circeo
Monte Circeo or Cape Circeo ( it, Promontorio del Circeo , la, Mons Circeius) is a mountain promontory that marks the southwestern limit of the former Pontine Marshes.located on the southwest coast of Italy near San Felice Circeo. At the nor ...
(1977)
* Miramare
Miramare Castle ( it, Castello di Miramare; es, Castillo de Miramar; german: Schloss Miramar; sl, Grad Miramar) is a 19th-century castle direct on the Gulf of Trieste between Barcola and Grignano in Trieste, northeastern Italy. It was built ...
(1979)
* Cilento and Vallo di Diano (1997)
* Somma-Vesuvio and Miglio d'Oro (1997)
* Valle del Ticino
Ticino (), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino,, informally ''Canton Ticino'' ; lmo, Canton Tesin ; german: Kanton Tessin ; french: Canton du Tessin ; rm, Chantun dal Tessin . ...
(2002), then Ticino Val Grande Verbano (2018)
* Tuscan Islands (2003)
* Selva Pisana (2004)
* Monviso
Monte Viso or Monviso (; oc, Vísol; Piedmontese: ''Brich Monviso'' or ''Viso'') is the highest mountain of the Cottian Alps. It is located in Italy close to the French border. Monte Viso is well known for its pyramid-like shape and, because it ...
(2013)
* Sila (2014)
* Tepilora, Rio Posada and Montalbo (2017)[
* Monte Peglia (2018)]
Latvia
* North Vidzeme (1997)
Lithuania
* Žuvintas
Lake Žuvintas is a shallow lake in Alytus district, central Lithuania. Area of Žuvintas Lake is 965 ha. It is the shallowest lake in Lithuania with the greatest depth 3 m and average only 0.6 m. It is a paradise for water birds, but also faces ...
(2002)
Montenegro
* Tara River Basin (1976)
Netherlands
* Waddensea Area (1986, withdrawn 2018)
North Macedonia
* Ohrid-Prespa (2014) (shared with Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and share ...
)
Poland
* Babia Góra Massif (1976)
* Białowieża Forest
Białowieża Forest; lt, Baltvyžių giria; pl, Puszcza Białowieska ; russian: Беловежская пуща, Belovezhskaya Pushcha is a forest on the border between Belarus and Poland. It is one of the last and largest remaining pa ...
(1976)
* Łuknajno Lake (1976)
* Słowiński (1976)
* Tatra Mountains (1992) (Cross-border with Slovakia)
* Karkonosze
The Giant Mountains, Krkonoše or Karkonosze (Czech: , Polish: , german: Riesengebirge) are a mountain range located in the north of the Czech Republic and the south-west of Poland, part of the Sudetes mountain system (part of the Bohemian Massif ...
(1992) (shared with the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
)
* East Carpathian (1998) (Cross-border with Slovakia and Ukraine)
* Kampinos Forest
Kampinos Forest () is a large forest complex located in Masovian Voivodeship, west of Warsaw in Poland.
It covers a part of the ancient valley of the Vistula basin, between the Vistula and the Bzura rivers.
Once a forest covering 670 km2 ...
(2000)
* West Polesie (2002) (Cross-border with Ukraine and Belarus) (2012)
* Tuchola Forest
The Tuchola Forest, also known as Tuchola Pinewoods or Tuchola Conifer Woods, (the latter a literal translation of pl, Bory Tucholskie; csb, Tëchòlsczé Bòrë; german: Tuchler or Tucheler Heide) is a large forest complex near the town of Tuch ...
(2010)
Portugal
* Paúl do Boquilobo (1981)
* Corvo Island (2007)
* Graciosa Island
Graciosa Island () (literally "graceful" or "enchanting" in Portuguese) is referred to as the ''White Island'', the northernmost of the Central Group of islands in the Azores. The ovular Portuguese island has an area of , a length of and a width ...
(2007)
* Flores Island (2009)
* Castro Verde (2017)[
]
Portugal and Spain
* Geres/Xures (2009)
* Meseta Ibérica (2015)
Romania
* Pietrosul Mare (1979)
* Retezat (1979)
Romania and Ukraine
* Danube Delta
The Danube Delta ( ro, Delta Dunării, ; uk, Дельта Дунаю, Deľta Dunaju, ) is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent. The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Ro ...
(1998)
Russian Federation
* Kavkazskiy (1978)
* Okskiy (1978)
* Prioksko-Terrasnyi (1978)
* Sikhote-Alin
The Sikhote-Alin (russian: Сихотэ́-Али́нь, , , ) is a mountain range in Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krais, Russia, extending about to the northeast of the Russian Pacific seaport of Vladivostok. The highest summits are Tordoki Yani a ...
(1978)
* Tsentral'no-Chernozemny (1978)
* Nevski Prospekhetee (1984)
* Kronotskiy (1984)
* Laplandskiy (1984)
* Pechoro-Ilychskiy (1984)
* Sayano-Shushenskiy (1984)
* Sokhondinskiy (1984)
* Voronezhskiy (1984)
* Tsentral'nolesnoy (1985)
* Barguzinskyi (1986)
* Baikalskyi (1986)
* Tzentralnosibirskii (1986)
* Chernyje Zemli (1993)
* Taimyrsky (1995)
* Ubsunorskaya Kotlovina (1997)
* Daursky (1997)
* Teberda (1997)
* Katunsky (2000)
* Nerusso-Desnianskoe-Polesie (2001)
* Visimskiy (2001)
* Vodolozerskiy (2001)
* Commander Islands
The Commander Islands, Komandorski Islands, or Komandorskie Islands (russian: Командо́рские острова́, ''Komandorskiye ostrova'') are a series of treeless, sparsely populated Russian islands in the Bering Sea located about ea ...
(2002)
* Darvinskiy (2002)
* Nijegorodskoe Zavolje (2002)
* Smolensk Lakeland (2002)
* Ugra (2002)
* Far East Marine (2003)
* Kedrovaya Pad (2004)
* Kenozerskiy (2004)
* Valdaisky (2004)
* Khankaiskiy (2005)
* Middle Volga Integrated Biosphere Reserve (2006)
* Great Volzhsko-Kamsky (2007)
* Rostovsky (2008)
* Altaisky (2009)
* Kizlyar Bay
The Kizlyar Bay (russian: Кизлярский залив) is a bay of the Caspian Sea located in the Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation.
If the plans for the proposed Eurasia Canal, linking the Caspian Sea with the Black Sea, are ever impl ...
(2017)[
* ]Metsola Metsola is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Ilari Metsola (born 1992), Finnish ice hockey player
* Juha Metsola (born 1989), Finnish ice hockey player
* Jukka-Pekka Metsola (born 1954), Finnish judoka
* Roberta Metsol ...
(2017)[
* Great Altai (2017)(encompassing ]Katun Nature Reserve
Katun Nature Reserve (russian: Катунский заповедник) (also Katunsky) is a Russian zapovednik (strict nature reserve) located in the highlands of the central Altai Mountains of south Siberia. The Katun River runs down through a ...
in Russia and Katon-Karagay National Park
Katon-Karagay National Park ( kk, Катонқараға́й мемлекетті́к ұлтты́қ табиғи́ паркі́, ''Katonqarağai memlekettık ūlttyq tabiği parkı'') is the largest national park in Kazakhstan, located on the eas ...
in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
)[
]
Serbia
* Golija-Studenica (2001)
* Bačko Podunavlje (2017)[
]
Slovakia
* Slovenský Kras
The Slovak Karst ( sk, Slovenský kras) is one of the mountain ranges of the Slovenské Rudohorie Mountains in the Carpathians in southern Slovakia. It consists of a complex of huge karst plains and plateaus. Since 1973 it has been a protected ...
(1977)
* Poľana
Poľana is a small mountain range in central Slovakia. It lies in the north-eastern part of the Slovak Central Mountains. The highest hill is Poľana - an inactive stratovolcano - at 1,458 m (4,873 ft) ASL.
The mountain range is bordered by Slo ...
(1990)
* Tatra Mountains (1992) (Cross-border with Poland)
* East Carpathian (1998) (Cross-border with Slovakia and Ukraine)
Slovenia
* 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 ...
(2003)
* The Karst (2004)
* Kozjansko & Obsotelje (2010)
* Mura River (2018)
Spain
* Grazalema
Grazalema is a village located in the northeastern part of the province of Cádiz, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Situated in the foothills of the Sierra del Pinar mountain range (Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park), Grazalema h ...
(1977)
* Ordesa-Viñamala (1977)
* Montseny Natural Park
Montseny () is a mountain range west of the coastal hills north of Barcelona. It is part of the Catalan Pre-Coastal Range.
Features
The Montseny massif is located within a triangle formed by the AP-7, C-17 and C-25 roads. It has the highest ...
(1978)
* Doñana (1980)
* Mancha Húmeda (1980)
* Las Sierras de Cazorla y Segura (1983)
* Marismas del Odiel (1983)
* La Palma
La Palma (, ), also known as ''La isla bonita'' () and officially San Miguel de La Palma, is the most north-westerly island of the Canary Islands, Spain. La Palma has an area of making it the fifth largest of the eight main Canary Islands. The ...
(1983)
* Urdaibai
The Urdaibai estuary is a natural region and a Biosphere Reserve of Biscay, Basque Country, Spain. It is also referred as Mundaka or Gernika estuary.
Urdaibai is located on the Bay of Biscay coast, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. Urdaib ...
(1984)
* Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primar ...
(1986)
* Cuenca Alta del Río Manzanares (1992)
* Lanzarote
Lanzarote (, , ) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located approximately off the north coast of Africa and from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering , Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the i ...
(1993)
* Menorca
Menorca or Minorca (from la, Insula Minor, , smaller island, later ''Minorica'') is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain. Its name derives from its size, contrasting it with nearby Majorca. Its cap ...
(1993)
* Sierra de las Nieves y su Entomo (1995)
* Cabo de Gata-Nijar (1997)
* Isla de El Hierro (2000)
* Bardenas Reales (2000)
* Muniellos, Gran Cantábrica (2000)
* Somiedo
Somiedo ( Asturian: Somiedu) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Belmonte de Miranda, on the east by Teverga, on the west by Tineo and Cangas del Narcea, and on th ...
(2000)
* Redes (2001)
* Las Dehesas de Sierra Morena (2002)
* Terras do Miño (2002)
* Valle de Laciana
Laciana, ''Tsaciana'' in Leonese language, is a comarca in the province of León, Spain. It had 11,904 inhabitants in 2005. The rivers of this comarca flow towards the Atlantic Ocean. Local people speak a certain variant of the Leonese language kn ...
(2003)
* Picos de Europa (2003)
* Monfragüe
Monfragüe (Spanish: ''Parque Nacional Monfragüe'') is a Spanish national park noted for its bird-life. It is situated in the center of a triangle formed by Plasencia, Trujillo and the city of Cáceres within the province of Cáceres. Monfrag ...
(2003)
* Valles del Jubera, Leza, Cidacos y Alhama (2003)
* Babia (2004)
* Alto de Bernesga (2005)
* Los Valles de Omaña y Luna (2005)
* Los Argüellos (2005)
* Área de Allariz (2005)
* Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa which is part of Spain. the island had a population of that ...
(2005)
* Sierra del Rincón (2005)
* Os Ancares Lucenses e Montes de Cervantes (2006)
* Los Ancares Leoneses (2006)
* Las Sierras de Béjar y Francia (2006)
* Río Eo, Oscos e Terras de Buron (2007)
* Fuerteventura
Fuerteventura () is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, part of the North Africa region, and politically part of Spain. It is located away from the northwestern coast of Africa. The island was declared a biosphere reserve by UNE ...
(2009)
* As Mariñas Coruñesas e Terras do Mandeo (2013)
* Terres de l'Ebre
Terres de l'Ebre (, literally in English 'The Ebre Lands') is one of the seven territories defined by the Regional Plan of Catalonia. It is located in the south-west of Catalonia, in the southern part of river Ebre, and will be formed by four co ...
(2013)
* Real Sitio de San Ildefonso
San Ildefonso (), La Granja (), or La Granja de San Ildefonso, is a town and municipality in the Province of Segovia, in the Castile and León autonomous region of central Spain.
It is located in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama mou ...
- El Espinar (2013)
* Macizo de Anaga
Macizo de Anaga is a mountain range in the northeastern part of the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The highest point is 1,024 m (Cruz de Taborno). It stretches from the Punta de Anaga in the northeast to Cruz del Carmen in the sout ...
(2015)
* Ponga (2018)
Sweden
* ( Lake Torne Area (1986) - withdrawn in 2010)
* Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve (2005)Lake Vänern
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much larger ...
Archipelago (2010)
River Landscape of Nedre Dalälven
(2011)
* East Vättern Scarp Landscape (2012)
Voxnadalen
(2019)
Vindelälven-Juhttátahkka
(2019)
Switzerland
* Swiss National Park (1979)
* Entlebuch Biosphere (2001)
* Biosfera Val Müstair (2010)
Turkey
* Camili (2005)
Ukraine
* Chernomorskiy (1984)
* Askaniya-Nova (1985)
* Carpathian
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches ...
(1992)
* East Carpathian (1998) (Cross-border with Slovakia and Ukraine)
* Shatskiy (2002)
* Desnianskyi (2009)
* Roztochya (2011)
United Kingdom
* Beinn Eighe
Beinn Eighe () is a mountain massif in the Torridon area of Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. Lying south of Loch Maree, it forms a long ridge with many spurs and summits, two of which are classified as Munros: Rua ...
(1976)
* Braunton Burrows
Braunton Burrows is a sand dune system on the North Devon coast. It is privately owned and forms part of the Christie Devon Estates Trust (see Tapeley Park). Braunton Burrows is a prime British sand dune site, the largest sand dune system (psamm ...
(1976), extended 2002 as North Devon's Biosphere Reserve
North Devon's Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in North Devon. It covers and is centred on Braunton Burrows, the largest sand dune system (psammosere) in England. The boundaries of the reserve follow the edges of the conjoined ca ...
* Cairnsmore of Fleet
Cairnsmore of Fleet is an isolated mountain in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The mountain forms an unafforested granite massif, whose highest point is about east of Newton Stewart. It is the highest of the "Solway Hills" sub-range, and the so ...
(1976)
* Biosffer Dyfi (1976)
* (Loch Druidibeg (1976) - withdrawn 2013)
* (Moor House-Upper Teesdale
Moor House-Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve covers 7,400 ha of the Pennine moors in the north of England. It straddles Cumbria and County Durham. It was designated a UNESCO biosphere reserve in 1976.
The Moor House area was in the first ...
(1976) - withdrawn 2012)
* ( North Norfolk Coast (1976) - withdrawn 2014)
* Silver Flowe-Merrick Kells (1976)
* (Taynish (1977) - withdrawn 2010)
* Galloway and southern Ayrshire (2012)
* Brighton and Lewes Downs (2014)
* Wester Ross (2016)
United States
* Big Bend (1976)
* Cascade Head
Cascade Head is a headland and UNESCO biosphere reserve and United States Forest Service Experimental Forest. It is situated southwest of Portland, Oregon on the Oregon Coast between Lincoln City and Neskowin. Cascade Head Preserve is a Natur ...
(1976)
* Channel Islands
The Channel Islands ( nrf, Îles d'la Manche; french: îles Anglo-Normandes or ''îles de la Manche'') are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, ...
(1976)
* Denali
Denali (; also known as Mount McKinley, its former official name) is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of above sea level. With a topographic prominence of and a topographic isolation of , Denali is the ...
(1976)
* Everglades & Dry Tortugas (1976)
* Glacier
A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such a ...
(1976)
* Jornada (1976)
* Luquillo
Luquillo () is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the northeast coast, northwest of Fajardo; and east of Rio Grande. Luquillo is spread over 5 barrios and Luquillo Pueblo (the downtown area and the administrative center of the ci ...
(1976)
* Olympic
Olympic or Olympics may refer to
Sports
Competitions
* Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896
** Summer Olympic Games
** Winter Olympic Games
* Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece bet ...
(1976)
* Organ Pipe Cactus (1976)
* Rocky Mountain
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico in ...
(1976)
* San Joaquin (1976)
* Sequoia-Kings Canyon (1976)
* Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellow ...
(1976)
* University of Michigan Biological Station (1979)
* Virginia Coast (1979)
* Hawaiian Islands
The Hawaiian Islands ( haw, Nā Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost ...
(1980)
* Isle Royale (1980)
* Big Thicket
The Big Thicket is the name given to a somewhat imprecise region of a heavily-forested area of Southeast Texas in the United States. This area represents a portion of the mixed pine-hardwood forests of southeast US. The National Park Service esta ...
(1981)
* Guanica (1981)
* Central Gulf Coast Plain (1983)
* South Atlantic Coastal Plain (1983)
* Mojave and Colorado Deserts (1984)
* Glacier Bay
Glacier Bay Basin in southeastern Alaska, in the United States, encompasses the Glacier Bay and surrounding mountains and glaciers, which was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925, and which was later, on December 2, 1980 ...
-Admiralty Island
Admiralty Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska, at . It is long and wide with an area of , making it the seventh-largest island in the United States and the 132nd largest island in the world. It is one of the ...
(1986)
* Golden Gate
The Golden Gate is a strait on the west coast of North America that connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean. It is defined by the headlands of the San Francisco Peninsula and the Marin Peninsula, and, since 1937, has been spanned by t ...
(1988)
* New Jersey Pinelands (1988)
* Southern Appalachian (1988)
* Champlain
Samuel de Champlain (; Fichier OrigineFor a detailed analysis of his baptismal record, see RitchThe baptism act does not contain information about the age of Samuel, neither his birth date nor his place of birth. – 25 December 1635) was a Fre ...
- Adirondak (1989)
* Mammoth Cave Area (1990)
;Sites withdrawn in 2017 by request of the U.S. government:[
* (]Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands (; ; ale, Unangam Tanangin,”Land of the Aleuts", possibly from Chukchi ''aliat'', "island"), also called the Aleut Islands or Aleutic Islands and known before 1867 as the Catherine Archipelago, are a chain of 14 large v ...
(1976–2017))
* ( Beaver Creek (1976–2017))
* (California Coast Ranges
The Coast Ranges of California span from Del Norte or Humboldt County, California, south to Santa Barbara County. The other three coastal California mountain ranges are the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges and the Klamath Mountains. ...
(1983–2017))
* (Carolinian-South Atlantic (1986–2017))
* ( Central Plains (1976–2017))
* ( Coram (1976–2017))
* (Desert
A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to denudation. About on ...
(1976–2017))
* ( Fraser (1976–2017))
* ( H.J. Andrews (1976–2017))
* (Hubbard Brook
Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is an area of land in the towns of Woodstock, Ellsworth and Thornton in the White Mountains of New Hampshire that functions as an outdoor laboratory for ecological studies. It was initially established in 19 ...
(1976–2017))
* (Konza Prairie
The Konza Prairie Biological Station is a protected area of native tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of northeastern Kansas. "Konza" is an alternative name for the Kansa or Kaw Indians who inhabited this area until the mid-19th century.
T ...
(1978))
* ( Land Between the Lakes (1991–2017))
* (Niwot Ridge Niwot Ridge is an alpine ecology research station located 65 km north-west of Denver in north-central Colorado. It is on the Front Range of the southern Rocky Mountains and lies within the Roosevelt National Forest. Niwot Ridge is high.
Chara ...
(1979–2017))
* ( Noatak (1976–2017))
* ( Stanislaus-Tuolumne (1976–2017))
* ( Three Sisters (1976–2017))
* (Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands ( es, Islas Vírgenes) are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. They are geologically and biogeographically the easternmost part of the Greater Antilles, the northern islands belonging to the Puerto Rico Trench and St. Cro ...
(1976–2017))
;Sites withdrawn in 2018
References
Further reading
*
International Journal of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
'. eISSN 2371-7890. Some contents archived a
External links
List of UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves of Europe and North America
{{Biosphere Reserves
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