KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025
BD-R-3: Protected areas
… reserves and national parks as a proportion of Germany’s overall terrain. Natura 2000 areas as well as core and buffer zones of biosphere reserves are included, … the overall terrain of these protected areas has increased from 1,129,225 ha in 2000 to 1,632,691 ha in 2020. With reference to the overall terrain of Germany, this … again since 2018, the terrain of national parks increased only between 2003 and 2004, as a result of the foundation of the Eifel National Park in North-Rhine …