Under UNESCO

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...

’s Man and Biosphere Reserve Programme, there are currently 258 biosphere reserves recognized as part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves

World Network of Biosphere Reserves

The UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves covers internationally-designated protected areas, known as biosphere reserves, that are meant to demonstrate a balanced relationship between man and nature The UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves covers internationally-designated protected...

 in Europe and North America. These are distributed across 31 countries in the region.

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

World Network of Biosphere Reserves in the Arab States

Under UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Reserve Programme, there are currently 26 biosphere reserves recognized as part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves in the Arab States...

 region.

Austria

• Gossenköllesee (1977)
• Gurgler Kamm (1977)
• Lobau
  Lobau
  The Lobau is a Vienna floodplain on the northern side of the Danube and partly in Großenzersdorf, Lower Austria. It has been part of the Danube-Auen National Park since 1996 and has been a protected area since 1978. It is used as a recreational area and is known as a site of nudism. There is...
  
   (1977)
• Neusiedler See (1977)
• Grosses Walsertal (2000)
• Wienerwald
  Wienerwald
  The Vienna Woods are forested highlands that form the northeastern foothills of the Northern Limestone Alps in the states of Lower Austria and Vienna. The long and wide hill range is heavily wooded and a popular recreation area with the Viennese....
  
   (2005)

Belarus

• Berezinskiy (1978)
• Belovezhskaya Pushcha (1993)
• Pribuzhskoye-Polesie (2004)

Bulgaria

• Steneto
  Central Balkan National Park
  The Central Balkan National Park lies in the heart of Bulgaria, nestled in the central and higher portions of the Balkan Range. The Park contains rare and endangered wildlife species and communities, self-regulating ecosystems of biological diversity, as well as historical sites of global cultural...
  
   (1977)
• Alibotouch (1977)
• Bistrichko Branichté
  Bistrishko Branishte
  Bistrishko Branishte is a nature reserve on Vitosha Mountain in Bulgaria comprising the eastern slopes of Golyam Rezen , Malak Rezen and Skoparnik Peaks, the northern slopes of Golyam Kupen Peak , and the upper valleys of Vitoshka Bistritsa River and Yanchevska River...
  
   (1977)
• Boitine (1977)
• Djendema
  Dzhendema
  Dzhendema or Djendema, meaning "hell", applies to the South slope of Mount Botev, 2376 m above sea level, the highest peak in the Balkan mountain range in Bulgaria . It is also called the Southern Dzhendem. It was established as reserve on March 28, 1953. Djendema encompasses 42.2 km², and is the...
  
   (1977)
• Doupkata (1977)
• Doupki-Djindjiritza (1977)
• Kamtchia
  Kamchia (biosphere reserve)
  The Kamchia Biosphere Reserve, is a biosphere reserve on the northern coastline of Bulgaria, comprising the floodplain at the mouth of the Kamchia River...
  
   (1977)
• Koupena (1977)
• Mantaritza (1977)
• Ouzounboudjak (1977)
• Parangalitza (1977)
• Srébarna
  Srebarna Nature Reserve
  The Srebarna Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in northeastern Bulgaria , near the village of the same name, 18 km west of Silistra and 2 km south of the Danube...
  
   (1977)
• Tchervenata sténa (1977)
• Tchoupréné (1977)
• Tsaritchina
  Tsarichina
  Tsarichina is a village in western Bulgaria, located in the Kostinbrod province....
  
   (1977)

Canada

• Mont Saint Hilaire
  Mont Saint-Hilaire
  Mont Saint-Hilaire , is an isolated hill, high, in the Montérégie region of southern Quebec. It is about thirty kilometres east of Montreal, and immediately east of the Richelieu River. It is one of the Monteregian Hills...
  
   (1978)
• Waterton
  Waterton Lakes National Park
  Waterton Lakes National Park is a national park located in the southwest corner of Alberta, Canada, and borders Glacier National Park in Montana, USA. Waterton was Canada's fourth national park, formed in 1895 and named after Waterton Lake, in turn after the Victorian naturalist and conservationist...
  
   (1979)
• Long Point (1986)
• Riding Mountain
  Riding Mountain National Park
  Riding Mountain National Park is a national park in Manitoba, Canada. The park sits atop the Manitoba Escarpment. Consisting of a protected area , the forested parkland stands in sharp contrast to the surrounding prairie farmland. The park is home to wolves, moose, elk, black bears, hundreds of...
  
   (1986)
• Charlevoix
  Charlevoix
  The Charlevoix region, located in Quebec, includes parts of the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River and the Laurentian Mountains region of the Canadian Shield...
  
   (1988)
• Niagara Escarpment
  Niagara Escarpment
  The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment, or cuesta, in the United States and Canada that runs westward from New York State, through Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois...
  
   (1990)
• Clayoquot Sound
  Clayoquot Sound
  Clayoquot Sound is located on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is bordered by the Esowista Peninsula to the south, and the Hesquiaht Peninsula to the North. It is a body of water with many inlets and islands. Major inlets include Sydney Inlet,...
  
   (2000)
• Redberry Lake (2000)
• Lac Saint-Pierre
  Lac Saint-Pierre
  Lac Saint-Pierre is a lake in Quebec, Canada, located on the Saint Lawrence River between Sorel-Tracy and Trois-Rivières, downstream and east of Montreal. Including its shoreline, islands, and wetlands, the lake is a nature reserve...
  
   (2000)
• Mount Arrowsmith
  Mount Arrowsmith
  Mount Arrowsmith is the largest mountain on southern Vancouver Island. Its dominant rock is basalt. The mountain is contained within a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and as of September 18, 2009 is designated part of 1,300 hectare Mt. Arrowsmith Regional Park....
  
   (2000)
• Southwest Nova (2001)
• Frontenac Arch
  Thousand Islands - Frontenac Arch
  The Thousand Islands – Frontenac Arch region connects the Canadian Shield with the Adirondack region. The Thousand Islands are a chain of islands in the west end of the Saint Lawrence River....
  
   (2002)
• Georgian Bay
  Georgian Bay
  Georgian Bay is a large bay of Lake Huron, located entirely within Ontario, Canada...
  
   Littoral (2004)
• Manicouagan
  Manicouagan Reservoir
  Manicouagan Reservoir is an annular lake in central Quebec, Canada. The lake covers an area of 1,942 km², and its eastern shore is accessible via Route 389. The island in the centre of the lake is known as René-Levasseur Island, and its highest point is Mount Babel...
  
   Uapishka (2007)
• Fundy (2007)

Czech Republic

• Krivoklátsko
  Krivoklátsko Protected Landscape Area
  Křivoklátsko Protected Landscape Area is a Landscape Protected Area in the Czech Republic. It lies in the western part of the Central Bohemian Region and a small part of the north-eastern Pilsen Region...
  
   (1977)
• Trebon Basin (1977)
• Sumava
  Šumava National Park
  Šumava National Park is a National Park in the Plzeň and South Bohemian Regions of the Czech Republic along the border with Germany and Austria...
  
   (1990)
• Bílé Karpaty
  White Carpathians
  The White Carpathians is the westernmost mountain range of the Carpathian Mountains.They are part of the Slovak-Moravian Carpathians, stretching from the Váh river and the Little Carpathians in the south along the border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the Morava and the Javorníky range...
  
   (1996)
• Lower Morava
  Pálava Landscape Protected Area
  The Pálava Landscape Protected Area is a landscape protected area and UNESCO biosphere reserve located in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, on the border with Austria. This unique area was originally recognized by UNESCO in 1986 and expanded in 2003 to include another UNESCO site,...
  
   (2003)

Czech Republic & Poland

• Krkonose
  Krkonoše National Park
  Krkonoše National Park is a national park in the Liberec and Hradec Králové regions of the Czech Republic. It lies in the Krkonoše Mountains which is the highest range of the country. The park has also been listed as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve site...
  
  /Karkonosze
  Karkonosze National Park
  The Karkonosze National Park is a National Park in the Karkonosze Mountains in southwestern Poland.The park is located in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, along the border with the Czech Republic. It was created in 1959 to cover an area of 55.10 km²; today it is slightly larger at , of which 17.18 km²...
  
   (1992)

Finland

• North Karelian (1992)
  • Petkeljärvi National Park
    Petkeljärvi National Park
    Petkeljärvi National Park is a national park in Ilomantsi in the North Karelia region of Finland. It was established in 1956 and covers . Its specialities are e.g. fortification from the Continuation War, some of which have been renovated, and valuable eskers...
    
    
  • Patvinsuo National Park
    Patvinsuo National Park
    Patvinsuo National Park is a national park in the North Karelia region of Finland, in the municipalities of Lieksa and Ilomantsi. It was established in 1982 and covers . There are of marked walking trails in the area.-External links:*...
    
    
• Archipelago Sea Area (1994)

France

• Commune de Fakarava
  Fakarava
  Fakarava, Havaiki-te-araro, Havai'i or Farea is an atoll in the west of the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. It is the second largest of the Tuamotu atolls. The nearest land is Toau Atoll, which lies 14 km to the northwest....
  
   (1977)
• Vallée du Fango (1977)
• Camargue (Rhône River Delta) (1977)
• Cévennes
  Cévennes National Park
  The Cévennes National Park is a national park located in southern France, in the mountainous area of Cévennes.Created in 1970, the park has its administrative seat in Florac at Florac Castle. It is located mainly in the départements of Lozère and Gard, and covers some parts of Ardèche and Aveyron...
  
   (1984)
• Iroise
  Iroise Sea
  The Iroise Sea or Mer d'Iroise 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 borders on the English Channel to the north, the Celtic Sea to the west and the Bay of Biscay to the south. The origin of the name is...
  
   (1988)
• Mont Ventoux
  Mont Ventoux
  Mont Ventoux is a mountain in the Provence region of southern France, located some 20 km northeast of Carpentras, Vaucluse. On the north side, the mountain borders the Drôme département. It is the largest mountain in the region and has been nicknamed the "Giant of Provence", or "The Bald...
  
   (1990)
• Archipel de la Guadeloupe
  Guadeloupe National Park
  Guadeloupe National Park is a national park in Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France located in the Leeward Islands of the eastern Caribbean region. The Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin Nature Reserve is a marine protected area adjacent to the park and administered in conjunction with it...
  
   (1992)
• Luberon
  Luberon
  The Luberon or Luberon Massif , also called Lubéron, has a maximum altitude of 1,256 m and an area of about 600 km²...
  
   (1997)
• Pays de Fontainebleau
  Forest of Fontainebleau
  The forest of Fontainebleau is a mixed deciduous forest lying sixty kilometres southeast of Paris, France. It is located primarily in the arrondissement of Fontainebleau in the southwestern part of the department of Seine-et-Marne...
  
   (1998)

Germany

• Flusslandschaft Elbe (1979)
• Vessertal-Thüringen Forest
  Thuringian Forest
  The Thuringian Forest running northwest to southeast, forms a continuous stretch of ancient rounded mountains posing ample difficulties in transit routing save through a few navigable passes in the southern reaches of the German state of Thuringia. It is about long and wide...
  
   (1979)
• Bayerischer Wald
  Bavarian Forest
  thumb|The village of Zell in the Bavarian ForestThe Bavarian Forest is a wooded low-mountain region in Bavaria, Germany. It extends along the Czech border and is continued on the Czech side by the Šumava . Geographically the Bavarian Forest and Bohemian Forest are sections of the same mountain range...
  
   (1981)
• Berchtesgaden Alps
  Berchtesgaden Alps
  The Berchtesgaden Alps are a mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps, named after the market town of Berchtesgaden located in the centre...
  
   (1990)
• Wadden Sea and Hallig Islands of Schleswig-Holstein
  Wadden Sea National Parks
  The Wadden Sea National Parks, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are located along the German coast of the North Sea. Named after the Wadden Sea, they consist of three national parks:...
  
   (1990)
• Schorfheide-Chorin
  Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve
  The Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve, often shortened to Schorfheide, is a nature reserve in the German State of Brandenburg near the Polish border. The reserve was established in 1990 following the German Reunification and is under the protection of the UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve Programme...
  
   (1990)
• Spreewald
  Spreewald
  The Spreewald is situated about 100 km south-east of Berlin. It was designated a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 1991. It is known for its traditional irrigation system which consists of more than 200 small channels within the area. The landscape was shaped during the ice-age...
  
   (1991)
• Rügen
  Rügen
  Rügen is Germany's largest island. Located in the Baltic Sea, it is part of the Vorpommern-Rügen district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.- Geography :Rügen is located off the north-eastern coast of Germany in the Baltic Sea...
  
   (1991)
• Rhön
  Rhön Mountains
  The Rhön Mountains are a group of low mountains in central Germany, located around the border area where the states of Hesse, Bavaria and Thuringia come together. These mountains, which are at the extreme southeast end of the East Hesse Highlands , are partly a result of ancient volcanic activity...
  
   (1991)
• Waddensea of Lower Saxony
  Wadden Sea National Parks
  The Wadden Sea National Parks, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are located along the German coast of the North Sea. Named after the Wadden Sea, they consist of three national parks:...
  
   (1992)
• Waddensea of Hamburg
  Wadden Sea National Parks
  The Wadden Sea National Parks, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are located along the German coast of the North Sea. Named after the Wadden Sea, they consist of three national parks:...
  
   (1992)
• Oberlausitzer Heide-und Teichlandschaft
  Upper Lusatia
  Upper Lusatia is a region a biggest part of which belongs to Saxony, a small eastern part belongs to Poland, the northern part to Brandenburg. In Saxony, Upper Lusatia comprises roughly the districts of Bautzen and Görlitz , in Brandenburg the southern part of district Oberspreewald-Lausitz...
  
   (1996)
• Schaalsee
  Schaalsee
  Schaalsee is a lake in Germany. It forms part of the border between Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . The town of Zarrentin is located on its southern shores...
  
   (2000)
• Biosphäre Bliesgau
  Bliesgau
  The Bliesgau is a district of the Saarland in Germany. It is named for the River Blies, a tributary of the Saar River, and lies near the border with France....
  
   (2009)
• Swabian Alb
  Swabian Alb
  The Swabian Alps or Swabian Jura is a low mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending 220 km from southwest to northeast and 40 to 70 km in width. It is named after the region of Swabia....
  
   (2009)

Hungary

• Aggtelek
  Aggtelek
  Aggtelek is a village in the county of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hungary. It is known for the vast stalactite caverns of the nearby Baradla-Domica cave system, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Aggtelek and Slovak Karst....
  
   (1979)
• Hortobágy
  Hortobágy
  Hortobágy is both the name of a village in Hajdú-Bihar county and an 800 km² national park in Eastern Hungary, rich with folklore and cultural history. The park, a part of the Alföld , was designated as a national park in 1973 , and elected among the World Heritage sites in 1999...
  
   (1979)
• Kiskunság (1979)
• Lake Fertö (1979)
• Pilis
  Pilis Mountains
  The Pilis Mountains is a mountainous region in the Transdanubian Mountains with a beautiful landscape. Its highest peak is the Pilis with . It is a popular vacation destination in Hungary.-References:...
  
   (1980)

Italy

• Collemeluccio-Montedimezzo (1977)
• Circeo (1977)
• Miramare
  Miramare
  The Miramare Castle is a 19th century castle on the Gulf of Trieste near Trieste, northeastern Italy. It was built from 1856 to 1860 for Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and his wife, Charlotte of Belgium, later Emperor Maximilian I and Empress Carlota of Mexico, to a design by Carl...
  
   (1979)
• Cilento and Vallo di Diano
  Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park
  The Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park is an Italian national park founded in 1991...
  
   (1997)
• Somma-Vesuvio
  Vesuvius National Park
  Vesuvius National Park is a national park centered around the volcano, Mount Vesuvius, east of Naples, Italy. The park was founded in 1995 and covers an area of around 135 square kilometers all located within the Province of Naples....
  
   and Miglio d'Oro (1997)
• Valle del Ticino (2002)
• Tuscan Islands
  Tuscan Archipelago
  The Tuscan Archipelago is a chain of islands between the Ligurian Sea and Tyrrhenian Sea, west of Tuscany, Italy.The archipelago contains the islands of Gorgona, Capraia, Elba , Pianosa, Montecristo, Giglio, and Giannutri; all of which are protected as part of the Tuscan Archipelago National...
  
   (2003)
• Selva Pisana (2004)

Poland

• Babia Góra (1976)
• Białowieża (1976)
• Łuknajno Lake (1976)
• Słowiński
  Słowiński National Park
  Słowiński National Park is a National Park in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It is situated on the Baltic coast, between Łeba and Rowy. The northern boundary of the Park consists of of coastline.-History:...
  
   (1976)
• Puszcza Kampinoska
  Kampinos National Park
  Kampinos National Park is a National Park in east-central Poland, in Masovian Voivodeship, on the north-west outskirts of Warsaw. It has a sister park agreement with Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana, United States....
  
   (2000)
• West Polesie
  Polesie National Park
  Polesie National Park is a National Park in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland, in the Polish part of the historical region of Polesie. Created in 1990 over an area of 48.13 square kilometres, it covers a number of former peat-bog preserves: Durne Bagno, Jezioro Moszne, Jezioro Długie, Torfowisko...
  
   (2002)
• Tuchola Forest
  Tuchola Forest
  The Tuchola Forest is a large forest near the town of Tuchola in northern Poland, and lies between the Brda and Wda Rivers. It contains the Tuchola Forest National Park, which is at the core of the Tuchola Forest Biosphere Reserve, designated by UNESCO in 2010.- Landscape :The area was formed...
  
   (2010)

See also Czech Republic & Poland, Poland & Slovakia, and Poland, Slovakia & Ukraine.

Poland, Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

 & Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

• East Carpathians
  East Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
  The East Carpathian Biosphere Reserve is a transboundary protected area, designated as an area of global importance under UNESCO's Programme on Man and the Biosphere. It is located in the Eastern Carpathians and includes parts of three countries: Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine...
  
   (1998)

Portugal

• Paúl do Boquilobo
  Boquilobo Bog Natural Reserve
  Boquilobo Bog Natural Reserve is a natural reserve in Portugal. It is one of the 30 areas which are officially under protection in the country....
  
   (1981)
• Corvo Island
  Corvo Island
  Corvo Island , literally the Island of the Crow, is the smallest and the northernmost island of the Azores archipelago and the northernmost in Macaronesia, with a population of approximately 468 inhabitants constituting the smallest single municipality in Azores and in Portugal.-History:A small...
  
   (2007)
• Graciosa Island
  Graciosa
  Graciosa Island 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 60.65 km², a length of 10 km and a width of 7 km...
  
   (2007)
• Flores Island (2009)

Russian Federation

• Kavkazskiy
  Western Caucasus
  The Western Caucasus is a western region of the Caucasus in Southern Russia, extending from the Black Sea to Mount Elbrus.-World Heritage Site:...
  
   (1978)
• Okskiy (1978)
• Prioksko-Terrasnyi
  Prioksko-Terrasny Nature Reserve
  Prioksko-Terrasny Nature Biosphere Reserve is one of Russia's smallest zapovedniks , sprawling over an area of 5,000 hectares along the left bank of the Oka River in the Serpukhov District of Moskva Oblast. It was established in 1945 as part of the Moscow Nature Reserve and is home to 900 plant...
  
   (1978)
• Sikhote-Alin
  Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve
  Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve is biosphere reserve in Primorsky Krai.It was founded on February 10, 1935 for protected sables population. Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve is located in a watershed and eastern slopes of Central Sikhote-Alin in Terneysky and Krasnoarmeysky Districts and area of Dalnegorsk...
  
   (1978)
• Tsentral'no-Chernozemny
  Central Black Earth Region
  Central Black Earth Region or Central Chernozem Region is a segment of the Eurasian chernozem belt that lies within Central Russia and comprises Voronezh Oblast, Lipetsk Oblast, Belgorod Oblast, Tambov Oblast, Oryol Oblast and Kursk Oblast...
  
   (1978)
• Astrakhanskiy
  Volga Delta
  The Volga Delta is the largest river delta in Europe, and occurs where Europe's largest river system, the Volga River, drains into the Caspian Sea in Russia's Astrakhan Oblast, north-east of the republic of Kalmykia. The delta is located in the Caspian Depression—the far eastern part of the delta...
  
   (1984)
• Kronotskiy
  Kronotsky
  Kronotsky is a major stratovolcano of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It has a particularly symmetrical conical shape, comparable to Mount Fuji in Japan and to Mayon Volcano in the Philippines. The summit crater is plugged by a volcanic neck, and the summit itself is ice capped. It exhibits the...
  
   (1984)
• Laplandskiy
  Lapland Biosphere Reserve
  Lapland Biosphere Reserve is a zapovednik in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, beyond the Arctic Circle, occupying an area of 2,784 km² to the northwest of Lake Imandra, including 86 km² of inland water...
  
   (1984)
• Pechoro-Ilychskiy
  Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve
  Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in the Komi Republic, Russia. It currently occupies 7,213 square kilometers and forms the core of the World Heritage Site Virgin Komi Forests.-Location:...
  
   (1984)
• Sayano
  Sayan Mountains
  The Sayan Mountains are a mountain range between northwestern Mongolia and southern Siberia, Russia.The Eastern Sayan extends from the Yenisei River at 92° E to the southwest end of Lake Baikal at 106° E...
  
  -Shushenskiy (1984)
• Sokhondinskiy (1984)
• Voronezhskiy (1984)
• Tsentral'nolesnoy (1985)
• Barguzinskyi
  Barguzin Nature Reserve
  Barguzinsky Nature Reserve is a zapovednik located in Buryatia on the west slope of the Barguzin Range, including the northeast shores of the Lake Baikal and a part of the lake itself. The name of the preserve comes from the Barguzin River.The area of the reserve is...
  
   (1986)
• Baikalskyi
  Baikalsky Nature Reserve
  The Baikal Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in southern Buryatia, Russia, established in 1969 for preserving the nature along the Lake Baikal and central part of the Chamar-Daban Range. The area of this nature reserve is 165,700 hectares...
  
   (1986)
• Tzentralnosibirskii (1986)
• Chernyje Zemli (1993)
• Taimyrsky
  Lake Taymyr
  Lake Taymyr is a lake of the central regions of the Taymyr Peninsula in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Federation. It is located south of the Byrranga Mountains....
  
   (1995)
• Ubsunorskaya Kotlovina
  Ubsunur Hollow Biosphere Reserve
  Ubsunur Hollow Biosphere Preserve is a fragile mountain hollow or depression located on the territorial border of Mongolia and the Republic of Tuva in the Russian Federation among the mountains — Tannu-Ola Mountains, and the Altay Mountains region — part of a combination of raised...
  
   (1997)
• Daursky (1997)
• Teberda (1997)
• Katunsky (2000)
• Nerusso-Desnianskoe-Polesie (2001)
• Visimskiy (2001)
• Vodolozerskiy
  Vodlozero National Park
  Vodlozersky National Park is the national park in the north of Russia, located in Onezhsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast and Pudozhsky District in the Republic of Karelia. It was established April 20, 1991. Since 2001, the National Park has the status of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve...
  
   (2001)
• Commander Islands
  Komandorsky Zapovednik
  Komandorsky Nature Reserve is a zapovednik located on the Commander Islands, Kamchatka Krai, Russia.The total area of the preserve is 3,648,679 ha of which 2,177,398 ha are marine buffer zone. The land territory includes most of Bering Island, all of Medny Island, as well as thirteen...
  
   (2002)
• Darvinskiy (2002)
• Nijegorodskoe Zavolje (2002)
• Smolensk Lakeland (2002)
• Ugra (2002)
• Far East Marine
  Peter the Great Gulf
  The Peter the Great Gulf is the largest gulf of the Sea of Japan adjoining the coast of Russia's Primorski Krai...
  
   (2003)
• Kedrovaya Pad (2004)
• Kenozerskiy (2004)
• Valdaisky
  Valdai Hills
  The Valdai Hills are an upland region in north-west of central Russia running north-south, about midway between Saint Petersburg and Moscow, spanning the Novgorod, Tver, Pskov, and Smolensk Oblasts....
  
   (2004)
• Khankaiskiy
  Khanka Lake
  Khanka Lake , is a transboundary freshwater body located on the border between Primorsky Krai, Russia and Heilongjiang province, Northeast China . At its closest point, it is situated east of the city of Jixi, Heilongjiang...
  
   (2005)
• Middle Volga Integrated Biosphere Reserve (2006)
• Great Volzhsko-Kamsky (2007)
• Rostovsky (2008)
• Altaisky
  Golden Mountains of Altai
  Golden Mountains of Altai is the name of an UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of the Altai and Katun Natural Reserves, Lake Teletskoye, Belukha Mountain, and the Ukok Plateau...
  
   (2009)

Slovakia

• Slovenský Kras
  Slovak Karst National Park
  Slovak Karst National Park is a national park in the Slovak Karst mountain range in South East Slovakia...
  
   (1977)
• Polana
  Polana Protected Landscape Area
  Poľana Mountains Protected Landscape Area is one of the 14 protected landscape areas in Slovakia. The Landscape Area is situated in the Poľana Mountains, part of the Slovenské stredohorie Mountains, in Central Slovakia...
  
   (1990)

Spain

• Grazalema
  Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park
  The Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park is a natural park in the northeastern part of the province of Cádiz in southern Spain. The park encompasses, within its , a complex of mountain ranges, known collectively as the Sierra de Grazalema, which, in turn, are part of the Cordillera Subbética...
  
   (1977)
• Ordesa
  Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park
  Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park is an IUCN Category II National Park situated in the Pyrenees of Huesca province, Aragon, Spain. There has been a National Park in the Ordesa Valley since 1918. Its protected area was enlarged in 1982 to cover the whole region amounting to 156.08 km².It has...
  
  -Viñamala (1977)
• Montseny
  Montseny
  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 mountains in the area south of the Pyrenees and dominates...
  
   (1978)
• Doñana
  Doñana National Park
  -Conservation:In 1989 the surroundings of the national park were given more protection when a buffer zone was declared a natural park under the management of the regional government. The two parks, national and natural, have since been classified as a single natural landscape.In 1994 UNESCO...
  
   (1980)
• Mancha Húmeda
  Mancha Húmeda
  Mancha Húmeda is a Spanish wetland area which was designated a Biosphere reserve in 1980."Húmeda" means damp in Spanish and "Mancha Húmeda" refers to the wetlands of La Mancha, a predominantly arid part of central Spain. The core area of the reserve is the Tablas de Daimiel National Park, which...
  
   (1980)
• Las Sierras de Cazorla y Segura
  Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park
  Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park is a natural park in the eastern and northeastern part of the province of Jaén, Spain, established in 1986. With an area of , it is the largest protected area in Spain and the second largest in Europe. It was declared a biosphere reserve by...
  
   (1983)
• Marismas del Odiel (1983)
• La Palma
  La Palma
  La Palma is the most north-westerly of the Canary Islands. La Palma has an area of 706 km2 making it the fifth largest of the seven main Canary Islands...
  
   (1983)
• Urdaibai
  Urdaibai
  The Urdaibai estuary is a natural region and a Biosphere Reserve of Biscay, Basque Country. It is also referred as Mundaka or Gernika estuary....
  
   (1984)
• Sierra Nevada
  Sierra Nevada National Park (Spain)
  The Parque Nacional Sierra Nevada is located in Granada and Almería provinces in south-eastern Spain. It was declared a national park on 14 January 1999. It stretches from the Alpujarra to El Marquesado and the Lecrin Valley, covering a total area of 85,883 hectares, making it the largest national...
  
   (1986)
• Cuenca Alta del Río Manzanares (1992)
• Lanzarote
  Lanzarote
  Lanzarote , a Spanish island, is the easternmost of the autonomous Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 125 km off the coast of Africa and 1,000 km from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering 845.9 km2, it stands as the fourth largest of the islands...
  
   (1993)
• Menorca
  Minorca
  Min Orca or Menorca is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain. It takes its name from being smaller than the nearby island of Majorca....
  
   (1993)
• Sierra de las Nieves
  Sierra de las Nieves
  The Sierra de las Nieves natural park is located in the hills behind Marbella and to the east of the road to Ronda from the Costa del Sol in Andalucia in Southern Spain....
  
   y su Entomo (1995)
• Cabo de Gata-Nijar
  Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park
  Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park is a natural park in Andalusia, Spain, near the city of Almería. It is the largest terrestrial-maritime reserve in the European Western Mediterranean Sea, covering 460 km² including the town of Carboneras, the mountain range of Sierra de Cabo de Gata, and...
  
   (1997)
• Isla de El Hierro
  El Hierro
  El Hierro, nicknamed Isla del Meridiano , is the smallest and farthest south and west of the Canary Islands , in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa, with a population of 10,162 .- Name :The name El Hierro, although phonetically identical to the Spanish word for 'iron', is generally thought...
  
   (2000)
• Bardenas Reales
  Bardenas Reales
  The Bardenas Reales is a semi-desert of some 42,000 ha in southeast Navarre . The soils are made up of clay, chalk and sandstone and have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising shapes, canyons, plateaus, tabular structures and isolated hills, called seamounts...
  
   (2000)
• Muniellos, Gran Cantábrica (2000)
• Somiedo
  Somiedo Natural Park
  Somiedo Natural Park is a natural park located in the central area of the Cantabrian Mountains in the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain....
  
   (2000)
• Redes
  Redes Natural Park
  The Redes Natural Park is located in the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain. Its total area is , split between two municipalities: Caso and Sobrescobio . It was declared a natural park in 1996.-Conservation:...
  
   (2001)
• Las Dehesas de Sierra Moreno
  Sierra Morena
  The Sierra Morena is one of the main systems of mountain ranges in Spain.It stretches for 400 kilometres East-West across southern Spain, forming the southern border of the Meseta Central plateau of the Iberian Peninsula, and providing the watershed between the valleys of the Guadiana to the...
  
   (2002)
• Terras do Miño (2002)
• Valle de Laciana (2003)
• Picos de Europa
  Picos de Europa National Park
  The Picos de Europa National Park is a National Park in the Picos de Europa mountain range, in northern Spain. It is shared by the autonomous communities of Asturias, Cantabria and Castile and León.-History:...
  
   (2003)
• Monfragüe
  Monfragüe
  Monfragüe is a comarca of Extremadura, western Spain, which contains the most recently designated of the country's fourteen National Parks ....
  
   (2003)
• Valles del Jubera, Leza, Cidacos y Alhama (2003)
• Babia (2004)
• Alto de Bernesga (2005)
• Los Valles de Omaňa y Luna (2005)
• Los Argüellos (2005)
• Área de Allariz (2005)
• Gran Canaria
  Gran Canaria
  Gran Canaria is the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, with a population of 838,397 which constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago...
  
   (2005)
• Sierra del Rincón (2005)
• Os Ancares
  Os Ancares
  Os Ancares is a comarca in the Galician Province of Lugo. The overall population of this local region is 13,888 .A range of mountains called in Galician the "Serra dos Ancares" forms the border with the neighbouring autonomous community of Castile and León where there is an area called Los...
  
   Lucenses e Montes de Cervantes (2006)
• Los Ancares
  Los Ancares
  Los Ancares is a district in northern Spain, which is noted for its unspoilt landscapes and ecological importance.The area takes its identity from the Sierra de los Ancares mountains which form a political and linguistic boundary between the autonomous communities of Galicia and Castile and...
  
   Leoneses (2006)
• Las Sierras de Béjar y Francia
  Sierra de Francia
  The Sierra de Francia is a mountain range located at the southern end of province of Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain. It is located about 70 km from Salamanca city, the provincial capital....
  
   (2006)
• Río Eo, Oscos e Terras de Buron (2007)
• Fuerteventura
  Fuerteventura
  Fuerteventura , a Spanish island, is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. It is situated at 28°20' north, 14°00' west. At 1,660 km² it is the second largest of the Canary Islands, after Tenerife...
  
   (2009)

See also Portugal & Spain.

Switzerland

• Swiss National Park
  Swiss National Park
  The Swiss National Park is located in the canton of Graubünden in the east of Switzerland between Zernez, S-chanf, Scuol and the Fuorn Pass in the Engadin valley on the border with Italy....
  
   (1979)
• Entlebuch Biosphere
  Entlebuch Biosphere
  The Entlebuch Biosphere is a natural reserve at the foot of the Alps which includes the 395 km² large valley of the Little Emme River between Bern and Lucerne in the Swiss Canton of Lucerne....
  
   (2001)
• Biosfera Val Müstair
  Val Müstair
  Val Müstair is a municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It was formed on 1 January 2009 through the merger of Tschierv, Fuldera, Lü, Valchava, Santa Maria Val Müstair and Müstair.-Demographics:...
  
   (2010)

Ukraine

• Chernomorskiy
  Black Sea
  The Black Sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean...
  
   (1984)
• Askaniya-Nova
  Askania-Nova
  Askania-Nova is a biosphere reserve located in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, within the dry Taurida steppe near Oleshky Sands. The reserve consists of a zoological park, a botanical garden, and an open territory of virgin steppes....
  
   (1985)
• Carpathian
  East Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
  The East Carpathian Biosphere Reserve is a transboundary protected area, designated as an area of global importance under UNESCO's Programme on Man and the Biosphere. It is located in the Eastern Carpathians and includes parts of three countries: Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine...
  
   (1992)
• Shatskiy
  Shatsky ozera
  Shatsky ozera means "Lakes of Shatsk" in Ukrainian. It is a group of fresh water lakes located in northwestern Ukraine and are known for their pure waters. The biggest lake and the most famous is Svitiaz.-External links:*...
  
   (2002)
• Desnianskyi (2009)

See also Poland, Slovakia & Ukraine and Romania & Ukraine.

United Kingdom

• Beinn Eighe
  Beinn Eighe
  Beinn Eighe is a complex mountain massif in the Torridon area of the Highlands of Scotland. It forms a long ridge with many spurs and summits, two of which are classified as Munros. The name Beinn Eighe comes from the Scottish Gaelic meaning File Mountain...
  
   (1976)
• Braunton Burrows
  Braunton Burrows
  Braunton Burrows is a sand dune system on the North Devon coast. Braunton Burrows is a prime British sand dune site, the largest sand dune system in England. It is particularly important ecologically because it includes the complete successional range of dune plant communities, with over 400...
  
   (1976)
• Cairnsmore of Fleet
  Cairnsmore of Fleet
  Cairnsmore of Fleet is a mountain in the Scottish Lowlands, on the edges of Galloway Forest Park. It is home to the most extensive area of open moorland in Galloway, and has been designated as a biosphere reserve.-Topography:...
  
   (1976)
• Biosffer Dyfi
  Dyfi National Nature Reserve
  The Dyfi National Nature Reserve, managed by The Countryside Council for Wales, is located north of Aberystwyth in the county of Ceredigion, Waleson the Dyfi estuary.The area was designated as a Nature Reserve in 1969 and consists of three separate areas:...
  
   (1976)
• Loch Druidibeg (1976)
• Moor House-Upper Teesdale
  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....
  
   (1976)
• North Norfolk Coast (1976)
• Silver Flowe-Merrick Kells (1976)
• Taynish (1977)

United States of America

• Aleutian Islands (1976)
• Big Bend
  Big Bend National Park
  Big Bend National Park is a national park located in the U.S. state of Texas. Big Bend has national significance as the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States, which includes more than 1,200 species of plants, more than 450 species of birds, 56...
  
   (1976)
• Cascade Head
  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...
  
   (1976)
• Central Plains
  Great Plains
  The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, which lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area covers parts of the U.S...
  
   (1976)
• Channel Islands
  Channel Islands National Park
  - External links :* Official site: * *...
  
   (1976)
• Coram
  Coram Experimental Forest
  The Coram Experimental Forest was established in 1933 within the Flathead National Forest in the state of Montana, about 45 kilometers east of Kalispell and just outside the borders of Glacier National Park....
  
   (1976)
• Denali
  Denali National Park and Preserve
  Denali National Park and Preserve is located in Interior Alaska and contains Denali , the highest mountain in North America. The park and preserve together cover 9,492 mi² .The longest glacier is the Kalhiltna glacier....
  
   (1976)
• Desert
  Desert Biosphere Reserve
  The Desert Biosphere Reserve and Experimental Range is a biosphere reserve and experimental range in the western reaches of the U.S. state of Utah. The experimental range was established in 1933 when of public lands were designated "as an agricultural range experiment station" by President...
  
   (1976)
• Everglades
  Everglades National Park
  Everglades National Park is a national park in the U.S. state of Florida that protects the southern 25 percent of the original Everglades. It is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, and is visited on average by one million people each year. It is the third-largest...
  
   & Dry Tortugas
  Dry Tortugas National Park
  Dry Tortugas National Park preserves Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas section of the Florida Keys. The park covers 101 mi2 , mostly water, about 68 statute miles west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico....
  
   (1976)
• Fraser
  Fraser River (Colorado)
  The Fraser River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately long, in north central Colorado in the United States. It drains large portion of the Middle Park basin in Grand County in the Rocky Mountains west of Boulder and southwest of Rocky Mountain National Park. It rises at the...
  
   (1976)
• Glacier (1976)
• H.J. Andrews (1976)
• Hubbard Brook
  Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
  Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is an area of land in the White Mountains of New Hampshire that functions as an outdoor laboratory for ecological studies...
  
   (1976)
• Jornada (1976)
• Luquillo
  El Yunque National Forest
  El Yunque National Forest, formerly known as the Luquillo National Forest, and the Caribbean National Forest, is a forest located in northeastern Puerto Rico. It is the only tropical rain forest in the United States...
  
   (1976)
• Noatak
  Noatak National Preserve
  The Noatak National Preserve is an United States National Preserve in northwestern Alaska that was established to protect the Noatak River Basin...
  
   (1976)
• Olympic
  Olympic National Park
  Olympic National Park is located in the U.S. state of Washington, in the Olympic Peninsula. The park can be divided into four basic regions: the Pacific coastline, alpine areas, the west side temperate rainforest and the forests of the drier east side. U.S...
  
   (1976)
• Organ Pipe Cactus
  Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
  Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is a U.S. National Monument and UNESCO biosphere reserve located in extreme southern Arizona which shares a border with the Mexican state of Sonora. The park is the only place in the United States where the Organ Pipe Cactus grows wild...
  
   (1976)
• Rocky Mountain
  Rocky Mountain National Park
  Rocky Mountain National Park is a national park located in the north-central region of the U.S. state of Colorado.It features majestic mountain views, a variety of wildlife, varied climates and environments—from wooded forests to mountain tundra—and easy access to back-country trails...
  
   (1976)
• San Dimas (1976)
• San Joaquin
  San Joaquin River
  The San Joaquin River is the largest river of Central California in the United States. At over long, the river starts in the high Sierra Nevada, and flows through a rich agricultural region known as the San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suisun Bay, San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean...
  
   (1976)
• Sequoia
  Sequoia National Park
  Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California, in the United States. It was established on September 25, 1890. The park spans . Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly , the park contains among its natural resources the highest point in the...
  
  -Kings Canyon
  Kings Canyon National Park
  Kings Canyon National Park is a National Park in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of Fresno, California. The park was established in 1940 and covers...
  
   (1976)
• Stanislaus
  Stanislaus National Forest
  Stanislaus National Forest contains in four counties in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California. It was established on February 22, 1897, making it one of the oldest national forests...
  
  -Tuolumne
  Tuolumne River
  The Tuolumne River is a California river that flows nearly from the central Sierra Nevada to the San Joaquin River in the Central Valley...
  
   (1976)
• Three Sisters
  Three Sisters Wilderness
  The Three Sisters Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Cascade Range, within the Willamette and Deschutes National Forests in Oregon. It comprises 286,708 acres , making it the second largest Wilderness area in Oregon...
  
   (1976)
• Virgin Islands
  Virgin Islands National Park
  Virgin Islands National Park is a United States National Park covering approximately 60% of the island of Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands, plus a few isolated sites on the neighboring island of St. Thomas...
  
   (1976)
• Yellowstone
  Yellowstone National Park
  Yellowstone National Park, established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho...
  
   (1976)
• Beaver Creek
  Wet Beaver Wilderness
  Wet Beaver Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona.Wet Beaver Creek is a perennial stream with one major tributary, Dry Beaver Creek. The confluence of the two is at McGuireville, Arizona...
  
   (1976)
• Konza Prairie
  Konza Prairie
  The Konza Prairie Biological Station is a 3,487-hectare preserve of native tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of northeastern Kansas. It is located south of Manhattan, Kansas and its southern boundary parallels Interstate 70...
  
   (1978)
• Niwot Ridge (1979)
• University of Michigan Biological Station
  University of Michigan Biological Station
  The University of Michigan Biological Station is a research and teaching facility operated by the University of Michigan. It is located on the south shore of Douglas Lake in Cheboygan County, Michigan. The station consists of 10,000 acres of land near Pellston, Michigan in the northern Lower...
  
   (1979)
• Virginia Coast
  Virginia Coast Reserve
  The Virginia Coast Reserve is a biosphere reserve created by The Nature Conservancy in the early 1970s. It consists of 14 barrier islands along the Atlantic coast of the Virginia portion of the Delmarva Peninsula, including Parramore Island, Hog Island, Virginia, Smith Island, Virginia, Assawoman...
  
   (1979)
• Hawaiian Islands
  Hawaiian Islands Biosphere Reserve
  The Hawaiian Islands Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in the Hawaiian Islands, created in 1980. It comprises Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii, and Haleakala National Park on the island of Maui, with a total area of 995.45 square kilometres.-External links:*...
  
   (1980)
• Isle Royale
  Isle Royale National Park
  Isle Royale National Park is a U.S. National Park in the state of Michigan. Isle Royale, the largest island in Lake Superior, is over 45 miles in length and 9 miles wide at its widest point. The park is made of Isle Royale itself and approximately 400 smaller islands, along with any submerged...
  
   (1980)
• Big Thicket
  Big Thicket
  The Big Thicket is the name of a heavily forested area in Southeast Texas. While no exact boundaries exist, the area occupies much of Hardin County, Liberty, Tyler, San Jacinto, and Polk Counties and is roughly bounded by the San Jacinto River, Neches River, and Pine Island Bayou. To the north, it...
  
   (1981)
• Guanica
  Guánica State Forest
  The Guánica State Forest is a subtropical dry forest located in southwest Puerto Rico. The area was designated as a forest reserve in 1919 and a United Nations Biosphere Reserve in 1981...
  
   (1981)
• California Coast Ranges (1983)
• Central Gulf Coast Plain
  Apalachicola Bay
  Apalachicola Bay is an estuary and lagoon located on Florida's northwest coast renowned for its oysters. The Apalachicola Bay system also includes St. Georges Sound, St. Vincent Sound and East Bay, covering an area of about . Four islands St. Vincent Island to the west, Cape St. George Island and St...
  
   (1983)
• South Atlantic Coastal Plain
  Congaree National Park
  Congaree National Park preserves the largest tract of old growth bottomland hardwood forest left in the United States. Located in South Carolina, the 26,546-acre national park received that designation in 2003 as the culmination of a grassroots campaign which had started in 1969...
  
   (1983)
• Mojave and Colorado Deserts
  Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve
  The Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve is a biosphere reserve designated by UNESCO in 1984 to promote the ecological conservation of a cluster of areas in the Mojave and Colorado deserts of California. A principal feature is Death Valley...
  
   (1984)
• Carolinian-South Atlantic (1986)
  • Yawkey Wildlife Center
  • Santee Coastal Reserve
  • Washoo Reserve
  • Capers island and Hobcaw Barony
    Hobcaw Barony
    Hobcaw Barony, also known as Bellefield Plantation is a tract on a peninsula called Waccamaw Neck between the Winyah Bay and the Atlantic Ocean in Georgetown County, South Carolina. Much of Hobcaw Barony is south of US Highway 17. The land was purchased by the investor, philanthropist,...
    
    
  • Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge
    Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge
    The Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge is a 66,287 acre National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern South Carolina near Awendaw on South Carolina's only cape, Cape Romain. are designated as Class I Wilderness...
    
    
• Glacier Bay
  Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
  Glacier Bay National Park is a national park in Alaska. The area around Glacier Bay in southeastern Alaska was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925. It was changed to Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve on Dec. 2, 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation...
  
  -Admiralty Island
  Admiralty Island National Monument
  Admiralty Island National Monument is located on Admiralty Island in Southeast Alaska. It was created December 1, 1978, and covers 955,747 acres of Tongass National Forest in the Panhandle of southeast Alaska...
  
   (1986)
• Golden Gate
  Golden Gate Biosphere Reserve
  The Golden Gate Biosphere Reserve is a biosphere reserve in Northern California. It was created by UNESCO in 1988, and encompasses thirteen protected areas in the San Francisco Bay Area...
  
   (1988)
• New Jersey Pinelands
  New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve
  New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve preserves the New Jersey Pine Barrens.The Pinelands is a unique location of historic villages and berry farms amid the vast oak-pine forests , extensive wetlands, and diverse species of plants and animals of the Atlantic coastal pine barrens ecoregion...
  
   (1988)
• Southern Appalachian
  Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest
  The Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest is a type of montane coniferous forest that grows in the highest elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States...
  
   (1988)
• Champlain
  Lake Champlain
  Lake Champlain is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States but partially situated across the Canada—United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec.The New York portion of the Champlain Valley includes the eastern portions of...
  
  -Adirondak (1989)
• Mammoth Cave Area
  Mammoth Cave National Park
  Mammoth Cave National Park is a U.S. National Park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system known in the world. The official name of the system is the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System for the ridge under which the cave has formed. The park was established...
  
   (1990)
• Land Between the Lakes
  Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area
  The Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States National Recreation Area located in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. The area was designated a national recreation area by President John F. Kennedy in 1963...
  
  (1991)

External links

• Searchable list of UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves