Statistics of the PA

STATISTICS OF THE PROTECTED AREAS CATEGORIES
Categorie	Amount	Area¹(ha)	Part of country are (%)
State Strict Reserves	6	18772,09	0,29
Nature	3	18406,72	0,28
Culture	2	245,85	0,004
Small Strict Reserves	1	119,52	0,002
Reserves	390	156114,88	2,39
State Reserves	279	143229,46	2,19
Landscape	46	43998,12	0,67
Geological	10	629,95	0,01
Geomorphological	38	21653,81	0,33
Hydrographical	34	12858,29	0,20
Pedological	11	1272,06	0,02
Botanical	32	5097,63	0,08
Zoological	29	15681,91	0,24
ornitological	10	2897,37
ichthyological	9	12178,17
terriological	1	8,00
herpetological	3	123,62
entomological	6	474,75
Botanical-zoological	27	17947,50	0,27
Telmological	51	24090,20	0,37
Talasological³	1	14027,10	-
Municipal Reserves	111	12885,42	0,20
Landscape	20	5303,89	0,08
Geomorphological	4	574,49	0,01
Hydrographical	3	332,61	0,01
Botanical	33	2816,24	0,04
Zoological	26	1529,74	0,02
ornitological	12	821,82
terriological	12	490,47
herpetological	1	0,33
entomological	1	217,12
Botanical-zoological	23	2253,50	0,03
Telmological	2	74,95	0,001
Recuperational plots	3	875,42	0,01
State parks	35	593700,35	9,09
National Parks⁴	5	144338,50	2,21
Regional Parks⁵	30	449361,85	6,88
Biosphere Reserves	1	18489,69	0,28
Biosphere polygons²	28	233518,73	3,58
TOTAL:		1021471,16	15,64

¹ Area of protected areas was calculated using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software
²Area of the State reserves which where in biosphere polygons was excluded from biosphere polygons area
³ Marine Reserve. Area of marine Reserve was excluded from total area of protected areas
⁴ Part of Curonian Split National Park that are on Baltic sea was excluded from total area of protected areas (12508,53 ha)
⁵ Part of Pajuris Regional Park that are on Baltic sea was excluded from total area of protected areas (3144,12 ha)

Last updated: 06-12-2023