List of protected areas of Bulgaria

National Parks   Nature parks

In Bulgaria, 25 auxiliary reserves and 965 wildlife sanctuaries were to protect the flora and fauna of three national parks and eleven nature parks, 55 nature reserves, built.

Generally

Areas for nature or landscape conservation in Bulgaria include all national and natural parks, all reserves, auxiliary nature reserves and protected areas. The first reserve for conservation was established in Bulgaria in 1931 in beach Saddle Mountains and is now called Silkosija. The Vitosha Nature Park, which occupies a part of the mountain of the same name, was built in 1934 and is the oldest nature park on the Balkan peninsula.

The law for the protection of these areas was adopted in 1998 by the Bulgarian Parliament and updated as a result of Bulgaria's accession to the EU in 2009. The law literally means law for protected areas ( Bulg Закон за защитените територии ). Today, all protected areas occupy 5% of the area of Bulgaria, as well as 7 % of all forest land in the country.

The three National Parks

The Bulgarian nature parks

Furthermore, there are in Bulgaria, the 11 natural parks ( Bulg природен парк / Priroden Park):

  • Communities Tryavna and Gabrovo Oblast Veliko Tarnovo, Oblast Gabrovo, Bulgaria
  • Area: 217.72 km ² dep1
  • Founded in 2002
  • Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
  • Area: 117.32 km ² dep1
  • Founded in 2007
  • On the Black Sea coast, east of Gold beach in Oblast Varna, Bulgaria
  • Area: 13.2 km ² dep1
  • Founded in 1943
  • Much of the Danube Island Belene in the Oblast Pleven, Bulgaria
  • Area: 217.62 km ² dep1
  • Founded in 2000
  • East of the Rila Monastery, Rila Mountains in the Sofia Province and Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
  • Area: 273.71 km ² dep1
  • Founded in 2000
  • In Northeast Bulgaria, about 20 km south of Ruse in Oblast Ruse, Bulgaria
  • Area: 34.08 km ² dep1
  • Founded in 1970
  • In the Balkan Mountains, north of the town of Sliven in the Oblast Sliven, Bulgaria
  • Area: 113.80 km ² dep1
  • Founded in 1980
  • Takes part of the Shoumen plateau one, the west of the town of Shumen Oblast in Shumen, Bulgaria
  • Area: 38.95 km ² dep1
  • Founded in 1980
  • Occupies a large part of the beach Saddle Mountains on one side and the Bulgarian Black Sea coast in the Oblast Burgas, Bulgaria
  • Area: 1161 km ² dep1
  • Founded in 1995
  • Occupies a large part of the Vitosha mountain to the south of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Area: 270.79 km ² dep1
  • Founded in 1934
  • In Northwest Bulgaria, in the same part of the western Balkan Mountains, west of the town of Vratsa, Vratsa oblast, Bulgaria
  • Area: 308.79 km ² dep1
  • Established in 1989

Nature reserves and natural protected areas

In Bulgaria, a total of 55 reserves are counted. 16 of which 1977 were under the UNESCO program "Man and Biosphere" ( Man and Biosphere - MAB) proclaimed to protect typical landscapes to biosphere reserves. Next there (June 2012) 965 nature reserves with a total area of ​​582,494.2 ha, occupying 5.3 percent of the country's territory. Some of the reserves and protected areas are:

  • Nature Reserve Derwischa in Veliki Preslav
  • Nature Reserve Ostriza
  • Nature Reserve Patlejna in Veliki Preslav
  • Nature Reserve Silkosia,
  • Srebarna Nature Reserve, includes the Srebarna Lake
  • Nature reserve Alepu in Sozopol
  • Nature reserve Arkutino ( Аркутино ) in Primorsko
  • Poda Nature Reserve, near Burgas
  • Nature reserve sealed genes Skele in Burgas
  • Nature reserve Usungeren in Burgas
Golden Sands Nature Park Strandzha Pirin National Park Belene Island Hectare Poda Protected Area
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