The Nature Park is not a National Park

DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A NATURE PARK AND A NATIONAL PARK?

Nature Parks are areas which "mostly fill the preliminarities of landscape protection areas, consisting of a special diversity, uniqueness and beauty, and which are especially suitable for recreation purposes because of their landscape features". In Nature Parks the needs for nature protection and landscape management should be in harmony with the needs of recreation. They help to ensure the continued and further development of characteristic cultural landscapes. To achieve this, it is also necessary to conserve and support environmentally friendly extensive land- and forest-management.

Aims

Area

Responsibility

Legal basis

Ownership

BAVARIAN FOREST NATURE PARK

- conservation of rural cultural landscapes support of environmentally friendly

- landuse usage for recreation purposes

- public relations and education

large area from the Danube to the border ridge of the Czech Republic

Bavarian Forest Nature Park Inc. as the upholder (located in Zwiesel)

Bavarian Nature Protection Law Article 11

all forms of ownership: private, governmental and corporate

BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK

- protection of the dynamics of natural and semi-natural landscapes

- nature is left to nature, no economic usage

- recreation and environmental education scientific research

wooded mountain ridge of the rural districts Regen and Freyung-Grafenau along the border of the Czech Republic

National Park Administration as special organ of the Bavarian State Ministry for Environmental Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection

Bavarian Nature Protection Law Article 8

Governmental forest