Growth of the nationally designated protected areas and site number in 39 EEA countries

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Created : Oct 26, 2010 Published : Oct 26, 2010 Last modified : Nov 29, 2012 11:38 AM — expired

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How to read the graph: In 1995 there was more than 40 000 of nationally designated sites within the 39 countries. More than 600 000 km2 were under national designations.

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Aug 18, 2009 - Growth of nationally designated protected areas in 39 European countries
Jul 25, 2007 - Cumulated area of nationally designated areas over time in 39 European countries
Oct 23, 2006 - Cumulated area of nationally designated areas over time in 37 European countries up to 2005
Mar 18, 2005 - Cumulated area of nationally designated areas over time in 30 European countries for the period 1900-2002

http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/growth-of-nationally-designated-protected-areas-in-39-european-countries-1/figure-2-8_sebi-assessment-report.eps/image_original

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Temporal coverage:

1850-2009

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biodiversity | CDDA | protected area

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Albania Austria Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark EEA32, Cyprus, Estonia, Poland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Latvia, Malta, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Sweden, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria, Finland, Romania, United Kingdom, France, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom

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EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency.

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Overlap may exist due to multiple designations for a same site. The average of overlap is around 14 % at European level. At country level the average varies from 46 % of overlap for Germany, 34 % for Estonia and less that in 5 % in Turkey

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