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Asháninka Communal Reserve

The Asháninka Communal Reserve (Reserva Comunal Asháninka) is a protected area in Peru located in the Junín Region, Satipo Province, Río Tambo District.

Bulabog Putian National Park

Bulabog Putian National Park is a protected area of the Philippines located in the municipalities of Dingle and San Enrique, Iloilo in Panay Island.

Chancaybaños Reserved Zone

The Chancaybaños Reserved Zone (Zona Reservada Chancaybaños) is a protected area in Peru located in the Cajamarca Region, Santa Cruz Province, Chancaybaños District.

Cyclorana vagitus

No threats have been identified and the species is located within a protected area.

Emperor tamarin

Emperor tamarins are located in protected areas in Peru at Manú National Park and Bolivia at Manuripi-Heath Amazonian Wildlife National Reserve.

Gautala Autramghat Sanctuary

Gautala Autramghat Sanctuary is a protected area of Maharashtra state, India.

Gmünd, Lower Austria

Situated on the Lainsitz (Lužnice) river where it forms the border with České Velenice in the Czech Republic, it is an important road and railway crossing point, next to the Blockheide protected area.

Libmanan Caves National Park

Libmanan Caves National Park is a protected area of the Philippines located in Barangay Sigamot in the municipality of Libmanan, Camarines Sur in Bicol Region.

Machiguenga Communal Reserve

The Machiguenga Communal Reserve (Reserva Comunal Machiguenga) is a protected area in Peru located in the Cusco Region, La Convención Province, Echarate District.

Megantoni National Sanctuary

Megantoni National Sanctuary (Santuario Nacional Megantoni) is a protected area in Peru situated in the Cusco Region, La Convención Province, Echarate District.

Pantuwaraya Lake National Park

Pantuwaraya Lake National Park is a protected area of the Philippines located in barangay Pantao Raya in the municipality of Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur.

Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary

Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary is a famous 481 km² Protected area in Thiruvallur District of Tamil Nadu state near Elavur and Nellore and Chittoor districts of Andhra Pradesh in South India.

Rungkunan National Park

Rungkunan National Park is a protected area of the Philippines located in the municipalities of Ditsaan-Ramain and Tagoloan II in Lanao del Sur, some 10 kilometers east-south-east of the provincial capital Marawi.

Sagay Marine Reserve

Sagay Marine Reserve is a protected area in the Philippines located in Sagay, Negros Occidental.

Salikata National Park

Salikata National Park is a protected area of the Philippines located in the municipality of Lumba-Bayabao, Lanao del Sur in Mindanao Island.

Sungai Kial Forest Reserve

The Sungai Kial Forest Reserve is a protected area of tropical rainforest habitat in Peninsular Malaysia near the town of Tanah Rata in the state of Pahang.

Tylmanowa

Notable points of interest include Neoclassical manor from 1840 and a wooden church from 1756, as well as the nearby landscape park called Kłodne nad Dunajcem (89,1 ha) leading to World Heritage Site, Dunajec River Gorge.


see also

Arribes

Arribes del Duero Natural Park, a protected area in the southeast of the province of Zamora and the northeast of the province of Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain

Astragalus nitidiflorus

In 2004, a group of 46 specimens were discovered in a protected area between Cartagena and Mazarrón and plans for the conservation of this species have been implemented.

Bala Mande

In September 2003 he signed an agreement with Cameroon's Minister of Environment and Forestry Chief Tanyi-Mbianyor Clarkson for a transboundary protected area combining the Takamanda and Okwangwo reserves to protect the Cross River gorilla, the world's rarest subspecies of gorilla with only 280 individuals throughout its entire range.

Bardiya National Park

The Nepalgunj-Surkhet highway partly forms the southern boundary, but seriously disrupts the protected area.

Black Mountain National Park

Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park (formerly Black Mountains National Park), protected area in central Bhutan

Buffalo Springs

Buffalo Springs National Reserve, a protected area in the Isiolo District of Eastern Province, Kenya

Campanula gelida

Current threats include skiers trespassing in the protected area and expansion of other species including Tufted Hair-grass, Red Raspberry and Hypericum maculatum.

Chitwan National Park

Accessible from the nearby Bharatpur Airport, Sauraha offers a choice of hotels, lodges, restaurants and agencies that organize day trips into the protected area.

In the north and west of the protected area the Narayani-Rapti river system forms a natural boundary to human settlements.

Çıralı

It is a very small rural village located just over an hour's drive southwest from Antalya and has a 3.5 km secluded beach, the ruins of Olympos, the flames of the Chimaera / Yanartaş, as well as being a protected area by the WWF for the nesting of caretta, also known as loggerhead sea turtles.

Comoros forests

Protected areas include Mount Combani and the Saziley National Park on Mayotte, while the only protected area in Comoros proper is the marine park on Moheli.

Conservation Strategy Fund

Some notable achievements include helping to establish 1.5 million acres of protected area in central Brazil, helping local people divert the construction of a road through Volcán Barú National Park in Panama, successfully preventing construction of a dam that would have flooded significant portions of Madidi National Park in Bolivia, and delaying the paving of highway BR-319 in the Brazilian Amazon which, without proper safeguards, could have inflicted harm on the world's largest rainforest.

Eco Reserva Mbatoví

The Eco-reserva Mbatoví is a protected area and nature reserve located in the Paraguarí Department, Paraguay, in the middle of the Cordillera de los Altos, between Paraguarí and Piribebuy, in the Central Litoral.

Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle high-speed railway

The six km-long Saale-Elster viaduct crosses some meadows in the Saale and the Weiße Elster valleys between Schkopau and Halle that are part of a protected area under the European Union’s Habitats Directive.

Farellones

Yerba Loca Nature Sanctuary (Spanish: "Santuario Natural Yerba Loca") is a protected area that extends from the top of La Paloma Hill (Spanish: "Cerro La Paloma") to the top of Cerro El Plomo, dividing the valleys of the Blanco River and Olivares River.

Harlequin poison frog

The Bilsa Biological Station (operated by the Jatun Sacha Foundation) boasts three color morphs—red, yellow, and orange—within their 3000-ha protected area located within Ecuador's Mache and Chindul coastal mountain ranges.

Hasbergen

The municipality lies partly in the Hüggel hills, that belongs to the Teutoburg Forest Protected Area.

Hemis National Park

It is the only national park in India north of the Himalayas, the largest notified protected area in India (and thus the largest national park of India), and is the second largest contiguous protected area after the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve and surrounding protected areas.

Hispaniolan hutia

There were sightings in 2005 which were confirmed photographically (E.M. Fernández, et al. - see external links) in the Bahoruco region and evidence suggest that this area may have a substantial hutia population in and around the protected area.

Horreby

Horreby Lyng, a protected area of wetland to the northeast of the village is known for its mushrooms and butterflies, especially the large copper (Lycaena dispar).

Inao

Iñao National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area, a protected area in the Chuquisaca Department Bolivia

Lagunas de Ruidera Natural Park

The protected area of the Parque Natural de Ruidera includes not only the lakes but also the tributary valley of San Pedro, with the ruins of Rochafrida castle and the cave of Montesinos, which plays such an important role in the second part of Don Quixote.

Laverstock and Ford

Cockey Down, a grassy hill to the east of Laverstock, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a protected area that has interesting flora and fauna.

Lincoln National Park

Taylor Island and Grindal Island are also close to the Lincoln National Park but are not a part of the protected area.

Malaysian Plover

The main remaining large populations of Malaysian plovers in Thailand are in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park (Thailand's first marine protected area), and beaches around Bonok village both in Prachuap Khiri Khan province and Laem Phak Bia in Petchburi province.

Mauna Kea State Recreation Area

Mauna Kea State Recreation Area also known as Mauna Kea State Park, is a state of Hawaii protected area at the southern base of Mauna Kea.

Mejía Lagoons National Sanctuary

The Mejía Lagoons National Sanctuary (Santuario Nacional Lagunas de Mejía) is a protected area in Peru on the coastal Mejía District in Arequipa, in the mouth of the Tambo River.

Mississagi

Mississagi River Provincial Park -- a protected area on the Mississagi River in Algoma and Sudbury Districts, Ontario, Canada .

National Parks of Argentina

This formed the nucleus of a larger protected area in Patagonia around San Carlos de Bariloche.

Ngiri

Ngiri Reserve, a protected area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Oluwa Forest Reserve

In 2007, British Gas commissioned the Nigerian Conservation Foundation to report on the feasibility of its proposed protected area in the three reserves.

Oradea International Airport

Its location near the European route E60 and the future Transylvania motorway as well as the county's high tourist potential (Băile Felix hot springs, Padiş Natural Protected Area etc.) have led to a double digit growth of passenger and cargo traffic for the past two years.

Seč Dam

It supplies cities of Pardubice and Chrudim and is also an important tourist destination located in protected area Železné hory.

Serendip

Serendip Sanctuary, a protected area for wildlife in Victoria, Australia

SIMCA

Sugud Islands Marine Conservation Area, a Category II Marine Protected Area in Labuk-Sugud District, Malaysia

Spectacle Island Game Sanctuary

The Spectacle Island Game Sanctuary is a protected area in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Stobrawa

Stobrawa Landscape Park, a protected area around the Stobrawa river in south-west Poland