List of biosphere reserves in Europe

On this page, sorted by country, the sites in the continent of Europe are listed that have been recognized by UNESCO as a biosphere reserve as part of the Man and the Biosphere program (MAB) .

The number at the beginning of each line indicates the year the site was recognized as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

 Albania

• 2014 - Lake Ohrid and Prespa (together with Macedonia)

 Bulgaria

• 1977 - Alibotush
• 1977 - Bajuwi Dupki-Djindjiritsa
• 1977 - Bistrischko Branischte
• 1977 - Dupkata
• 1977 - Kamchia
• 1977 - Kupena
• 1977 - Mantariza
• 1977 - Parangaliza
• 1977 - Srebarna (enlarged in 2017)
• 1977 - Tscherwenata Stena (enlarged in 2017)
• 1977 - Tschuprene
• 1977 - Usunbodschak (enlarged in 2017)
• 2017 - Central Balkans (merging of four existing biosphere reserves)

former biosphere reserves in Bulgaria:

• 1977 - Boatin (withdrawn in 2017 and merged to form the Central Balkans )
• 1977 - Dschendema (withdrawn in 2017 and merged to form the Central Balkans )
• 1977 - Steneto (withdrawn in 2017 and merged to form the Central Balkans )
• 1977 - Zaritschina (withdrawn in 2017 and merged to form the Central Balkans )

 Denmark

• 2017 - Moen

See also : List of Biosphere Reserves in America # Denmark

 Germany

→ Main article : List of biosphere reserves in Germany

• 1979 - Thuringian Forest (extended 1987, 1990, 2018)
• 1979 - Elbe river landscape
• 1990 - Berchtesgadener Land
• 1990 - Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea and Halligen
• 1990 - Schorfheide-Chorin
• 1991 - Rhön
• 1991 - Spreewald
• 1991 - Southeast Rügen
• 1992 - Hamburg Wadden Sea
• 1992 - Lower Saxony Wadden Sea
• 1992 - Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord
• 1996 - Upper Lusatian heather and pond landscape
• 2000 - Schaalsee
• 2009 - Bliesgau
• 2009 - Swabian Alb
• 2017 - Black Forest

former biosphere reserves in Germany:

• Bavarian Forest (1981-2007)

 Estonia

• 1990 - West Estonian Archipelago

 Finland

• 1992 - North Karelia (extension 2009)
• 1994 - marine archipelago

 France

• 1977 - Vallée du Fango (expanded in 1990)
• 1977 - Camargue (expanded in 2006)
• 1984 - Cevennes
• 1988 - Iroise
• 1988 - Northern Vosges (since 1998 together with Germany)
• 1990 - Mont Ventoux
• 1997 - Luberon – Lure
• 1998 - Fontainebleau and Gâtinais
• 2012 - Dordogne river landscape
• 2013 - Marais Audomarois
• 2014 - Mont-Viso / Area della Biosfera del Monviso (cross-border with Italy)
• 2015 - Gardon caves

See also : List of Biosphere Reserves in America # _France  and List of Biosphere Reserves in Australia and Oceania # _France

 Greece

• 1981 - Samaria Gorge
• 1981 - Olymp

 Ireland

• 1981 - North Bull Island
• 1982 - Killarney National Park

 Italy

• Collemeluccio-Montedimezzo (1977)
• Circeo (1977)
• Miramare (1979)
• Cilento and Vallo di Diano (1997)
• Somma-Vesuvio and Miglio d'Oro (1997)
• Ticino, Val Grande Verbano (2002, expanded in 2018)
• Tuscan Islands (2003)
• Selve Costiere die Toscana (2004, 2016 enlarged and renamed)
• Monte Viso (2014, cross-border with France)
• Sila (2014)
• Ledroalpen and Giudicariums (2015)
• Po Delta (2015)
• Tuscan-Emilian Apennines (2015)
• Collina Po (2016)
• Tepilora, Rio Posada and Montalbo (2017)
• Monte Peglia (2018)
• Valle Camonica - Alto Sebino (2018)
• Julian Alps (2019)
• Po Grande (2019)

 Croatia

• Velebit (1977)
• Mur-Drava-Danube (2012, together with Hungary)

 Latvia

• North Vidzeme (1997)

 Lithuania

• Žuvintas (2011)

 Moldova

• Lower Pruth (2018)

 Montenegro

• Tara River Basin (1976)

 Netherlands

• Maasheggen (2018)

former biosphere reserve in the Netherlands:

• Wadden Sea (1986-2018)

 North Macedonia

• Lake Ohrid and Prespa (2014, together with Albania)

 Norway

• North Hordland (2019)

former biosphere reserve in Norway:

• Northeast Svalbard (1976–1997)

 Austria

• Great Walsertal (2000)
• Vienna Woods (2005)
• Salzburg Lungau & Carinthian Nockberge (2012)
• Lower Mur Valley (2019)

former biosphere reserves in Austria:

• Gossenköllesee (1977-2014)
• Gurgler Kamm (1977-2014)
• Neusiedler See (1977-2016)
• Lower Lobau (1977-2016)

 Poland

• Babia Gora (1976, expanded 1997 and 2001)
• Bialowieza (1976, expanded 2005)
• Masurian Lakes (1976, enlarged and renamed in 2017, previously Luknajno )
• Slowinski (1976)
• Karkonosze / Giant Mountains (1992, together with the Czech Republic)
• Tatra Mountains (1992, together with Slovakia)
• Eastern Carpathians (1998, together with Slovakia and Ukraine)
• Puszcza Kampinoska (2000)
• Tucheler Heide (2010)
• Western Poland (2012, together with Belarus and Ukraine)
• Roztocze (2019)

 Portugal

• Paúl do Boquilobo (1981)
• Corvo Island (2007)
• Graciosa Island (2007)
• Flores Island (2009)
• Gerês (2009, together with the Galician Xurés )
• Berlengas archipelago (2011)
• Santana (Madeira) (2011)
• Iberica plateau (2015, together with Spain)
• Fajãs de São Jorge (2016)
• Tejo / Tajo (2016 together with Spain)
• Castro Verde (2017)

See also : List of non-continental biosphere reserves # Portugal

 Romania

• Pietrosul Mare (1979)
• Retezat National Park (1979)
• Danube Delta (1992, since 1998 together with Ukraine)

 Russia

• Oka (1978, up to 2000 including the Oka Terrace Nature Reserve ; Okski )
• Central Black Earth Nature Reserve (1978; Zentralnotschernosemny )
• Astrakhan (1984; Astrakhansky )
• Lapland (1984; Laplandski )
• Pechora-Ilychski (1984; Pechora-Ilychski )
• Voronezh (1984; Voronezhsky )
• Central Forest Nature Reserve (1985; Central Nolesnoi )
• Chornye Semli (1993)
• Oka-Terrassen-NR (2000 as an independent outsourced, since 1978 as part of the Oka Biosphere Reserve ; Prioksko-Terrasny )
• Nerussa-Desna-Polessje (2001; Nerusso-Desnjanskoje Polessje )
• Wodlosero (2001; Wodloserski )
• Darwin (2002; Darwinski )
• Nischegorodskoye Savolschye (2002)
• Smolenskoye Poosjorje (2002)
• Ugra (2002)
• Kenosero (2004; Kenoserski )
• Waldai (2004; Waldaiski )
• Middle Volga (2006; Srednewolschski )
• Volga-Kama (2007, parts of the Raifa Forest and Sarali - land between the rivers since 2005; Bolshoi Wolschsko-Kamski )
• Rostov (2008; Rostowski )
• Volga-Akhtuba floodplain landscape (2011)
• Kizlyar Bay (2017)
• Metsola (2017)
• Ural Mountains (2018)
• Eltonsee (2019)

Note: If different, the transcription of the respective Russian name is given in brackets after the year of establishment.

See also : List of Biosphere Reserves in Asia # Russia

 Sweden

• Kristianstads Vattenrike (2005)
• Archipelago in Lake Vänern (2010)
• Blekinge Archipelago (2011)
• Nedre Dalälven River Landscape (2011)
• Vättersee (2012)
• Vindelälven-Juhtatdahka (2019)
• Voxnadalen (2019)

former biosphere reserves in Sweden:

• Torneträsk (1986-2010)

 Switzerland

• Swiss National Park (1979)
• Entlebuch (2001)

 Serbia

• Golija-Studenica (2001)
• Backo Podunavlje (2017)

 Slovakia

• Slovenský Kras (1977)
• Polana (1977)
• Tatra Mountains (1992, together with Poland)
• Eastern Carpathians (1992, together with Poland, 1998 also with Ukraine)

 Slovenia

• Julian Alps (2003)
• Karst (Southern Europe) (2004)
• Kozjansko and Obsotelje (2010)
• Mur (2018)

 Spain

• Grazalema (1977)
• Ordesa-Viñamala (1977)
• Montseny (1978, enlarged 2014)
• Doñana (1980)
• Mancha Húmeda (1980, enlarged 2014)
• Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas (1983)
• Marismas del Odiel (1983)
• Urdaibai (1984)
• Sierra Nevada (1986)
• Cuenca Alta del Río Manzanares (expanded 1992, 2019)
• Menorca (1993, zoning change in 2004, extended in 2019)
• Sierra de las Nieves y su Entorno (1995)
• Cape Gata-Nijar (1997)
• Bardenas Reales (2000)
• Muniellos (2000, expanded 2003, part of Gran Cantábrica)
• Somiedo (2000)
• Speeches (2001)
• Sierra Morena pasture landscape (2002)
• Terras do Miño (2002)
• Valle de Laciana (2003, part of Gran Cantábrica)
• Picos de Europa (2003, part of Gran Cantábrica)
• Monfragüe (2003)
• Valle de Jubera, Leza, Cidacos and Alhama (2003)
• Babia (2004, part of Gran Cantábrica)
• Área de Allariz (2005)
• Sierra del Rincon (2005)
• Los Valles de Omaña y Luna (expanded in 2005, 2019, part of Gran Cantábrica)
• Alto de Bernesga (2005, part of Gran Cantábrica)
• Los Argüellos (2005, part of Gran Cantábrica)
• Os Ancares Lucenses y Montes de Cervantes, Navia y Becerrea (2006, part of Gran Cantábrica)
• Los Ancares Leoneses (2006, part of Gran Cantábrica)
• Las Sierras de Béjar y Francia (2006)
• Intercontinental Mediterranean Biosphere Reserve (2006, together with Morocco)
• Rio Eo, Oscos y Terras Buron (2007)
• Gerês / Xurés (2009, together with Portugal)
• Las Ubinas – La Mesa (2012)
• Mariñas Coruñesas e Terras do Mande (2013)
• Terres de l'Ebre (2013)
• San Ildefonso – El Espinar (2013)
• Anaga Mountains (2015)
• Iberica plateau (2015, together with Portugal)
• Tajo / Tejo (2016, together with Portugal)
• Ponga (2018)
• Alto Turia (2019)
• La Siberia (2019)
• Valle del Cabriel (2019)

See also : List of Biosphere Reserves in Africa # Spain

 Czech Republic

• Křivoklátsko (1977)
• Třeboňsko (1977)
• Lower March (founded as Pálava in 1986, expanded and renamed in 2003)
• Šumava (1990)
• Krkonoše / Karkonosze (1992, together with Poland)
• Bílé Karpaty (1996)

 Ukraine

• Askanija-Nowa (1985)
• Desna (2009)
• Danube Delta (1998, together with Romania)
• Carpathian Mountains (1992)
• Eastern Carpathians (1998, together with Poland and Slovakia)
• Schazk National Park (2002)
• Black Sea (1984)
• Rostochchya (2011)
• Pribuzhskoye Polesie (2012, together with Poland and Belarus)

 Hungary

• Aggtelek (1979)
• Fertő (1979)
• Hortobágy (1979)
• Kiskunság (1979)
• Pilis (1980)
• Mur-Drava-Danube (2012, together with Croatia)

 United Kingdom

• Wester Ross (1976, extension by Beinn Eighe 2016)
• Braunton Burrows-North Devon (1976, expanded 2002)
• Biosffer Dyfi (1976, expanded and renamed 2009)
• Galloway and southern Ayrshire (2012)
• Brighton and Lewes Downs (2014)
• Isle of Man (2016)
• Isle of Wight (2019)

former UK biosphere reserves:

• Caerlaverock (1976-2002)
• Rùm Island (1976-2002)
• St. Kilda (1976-2002)
• Claish Moss (1977-2002)
• Taynish (1977-2010)
• Moor House-Upper Teesdale (1976-2012)
• Loch Druidibeag (1976-2013)
• North Norfolk Coast (1976-2014)

 Belarus

• Bjaresinsky (1978)
• Belaveskaya Pushcha (1993)
• Pribuzhskoye Polesie (2004)
• Pribuzhskoye Polesie (2012, together with Poland and Ukraine)

Web links

• Directory of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) on the UNESCO website
• The list of UNESCO biosphere reserves on the website of the German UNESCO Commission