East Carpathian Biosphere Reserve

East Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
IUCN category Ia (strict nature reserve)
The East Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
Location	Central-Eastern Europe
Coordinates	Coordinates: 49°04′56″N 22°34′04″E / 49.08222°N 22.56778°E / 49.08222; 22.56778
Area	2,132.11 km² (823.21 sq mi)
Established	1992

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.

The Biosphere reserve covers a total area of 2,132.11 square kilometres (823.21 sq mi).

Overview

The reserve was originally designated as a Polish–Slovak transboundary reserve in 1992; it was extended to include the Ukrainian part in 1998.

It includes the following national protected areas:

In Poland: Bieszczady National Park (Bieszczadzki Park Narodowy) and the two neighbouring landscape parks called Cisna-Wetlina Landscape Park (Ciśniańsko-Wetliński Park Krajobrazowy) and San Valley Landscape Park (Park Krajobrazowy Doliny Sanu);
In Slovakia: Poloniny National Park (Národný park Poloniny) and adjacent areas;
In Ukraine: National Nature Park of Uzh River (Національний природний парк Ужанський) and the Nadsiansky Regional Landscape Park.

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Protected areas of Poland

Smallcaps indicate World Heritage Sites Italics indicate Biosphere reserves

National parks	Babia Góra Białowieża Biebrza Bieszczady Bory Tucholskie Drawa Gorce Kampinos Karkonosze Magura Narew Ojców Pieniny Polesie Roztocze Słowiński Świętokrzyski Stołowe Mountains Tatra Ujście Warty Wielkopolska Wigry Wolin

Related lists	Biosphere reserves Landscape parks (Parki Krajobrazowe) Nature reserves (Rezerwaty przyrody) Ramsar sites World Heritage Sites

National parks and protected landscape areas of Slovakia

National parks	Low Tatras Malá Fatra Muránska planina Pieniny Poloniny Slovak Karst Slovak Paradise Tatra National Park Veľká Fatra

Protected landscape areas	Cerová vrchovina Dunajské luhy East Carpathians Horná Orava Kysuce Latorica Little Carpathians Poľana Ponitrie Strážov Mountains Štiavnica Mountains Vihorlat White Carpathians Záhorie

National Conservation Areas of Nature in Ukraine

Biosphere reserves	Askania-Nova Black Sea Carpathian Danube East Carpathian Roztochya

Nature reserves	Cape Martian Chalk Flora Cheremske Crimea Dnieper-Oril Drevlyans Gorgany Kaniv Karadag Kazantyp Luhansk Medobory Michael's Virgin Land Opuk Polissya Provallya Steppe Rivne Roztochya Stanychno-Luhanske Stone Tombs Striletsky Steppe Swan Islands Ukrainian Steppe Yalta Mount-Forest Yelanets Steppe

National nature parks	Azov Azov-Syvash Blue Mountain Buzk's Gard Carpathian Charming Harbor Cheremosh Derman-Ostroh Desna-Starahuta Dvorichna Dzharylhak Great Meadow Halych Hetman Holosiiv Holy Mountains Homolsh Woods Hutsulshchyna Ichnya Ivory Coast of Sviatoslav Karmelyuk's Podillya Khotyn Kremenets Mountains Lower Dniester Lower Sula Mezynsky Northern Podillya Podilian Tovtry Prypiat-Stokhid Pyryatyn Shatsk Siversky Donetsk Skole Beskids Sloboda Synevir Tuzly Lagoons Uzhanian Verkhovyna Vyzhnytsia White lake Yavoriv Zalissya

Categories of protected areas of Ukraine

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