Parks.it - Parks, Reserves, and Other Protected Areas in the Czech Republic

Parks, Reserves, and Other Protected Areas in the

Czech Republic

Regions

Karlovarsky
Ústecky
Liberecky
Plzenˇsky
Strˇedocˇesky
Prague
Královéhradecky
Pardubicky
Olomoucky
Moravskoslezsky
Jihocˇesky
Vysocina
Jihomoravsky
Zlinsky

Info

Protected Areas in the Czech Republic
The Nature Conservation Authority (NCA) is a state budgetary organization, a state organizational body. It was established as the Administration of Protected Landscape Areas of the Czech Republic on March 1st 1995. On May 1st 2004 it became the Nature Conservation Authority by a decision of the Ministry of Environment (No. 1/04, No. M//200174/04).
The NCA carries out administration and management in Protected Landscape Areas, National Nature Reserves, National Nature Monuments and administration and management in SPAs and data preparation for their designation. In addition, it provides regional offices with expert, methodical, educational, information and documentation services.

National Parks and Landscape Protected Areas
Nowadays, there are 25 Protected Landscape Areas and 4 National Parks (Cˇeské Sˇvycarsko, Krkonose, Sumava, and Podyji) in the Czech Republic, which account, along with four other categories of smaller scale protected areas of nature, for almost 16% of the country’s total territory.

Sources: Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic