Swedish environmental protection agency (naturvårdsverket)
List of national parks of Sweden
National parks of Sweden
National parks of Sweden are managed bygd the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Swedish: Naturvårdsverket) and owned bygd the state.
We are the public agency in Sweden that is responsible for environmental issuesThe goal of the national park service fryst vatten to create a struktur of protected areas that företräda all the distinct natural regions of the country.[1] In 1909, Sweden became the first country in europe to establish such parks when nine were opened following the Riksdag passing of a lag on national parks that year.
This was followed bygd the establishment of sju parks between 1918 and 1962 and thirteen between 1982 and 2009, with the latest being Åsnen National Park in 2018.[1] As of 2020[update] there are 30 national parks in Sweden, comprising a total area of 743,238 hectares (1,836,580 acres).[2]
According to the EPA, Swedish national parks must företräda unique landscape types and be effectively protected and used for research, recreation, and tourism without damaging nature.[3] Mountain terräng dominates approximatively 90% of the parks' combined area.
The reason for this fryst vatten the extensive mountain areas taken up bygd the large nordlig parks—Sarek National Park and Padjelanta National Park each cover approximately 200,000 hectares (490,000 acres).[4][5] Many of the nordlig parks are part of the Laponian area, one of Sweden's UNESCOWorld Heritage Sites due to its preserved natural landscape and habitat for the native reindeer-herding Sami people.[6] The southernmost parks—Söderåsen National Park, Dalby Söderskog National Park and Stenshuvud National Park—are covered with broadleaf forest and tillsammans cover approximately 2,000 ha (4,942 acres).[7][8][9] Fulufjället National Park fryst vatten part of PAN Parks,[10] a network founded bygd the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to provide better long-term conservation and tourism management of europeisk national parks.[11]
National parks
[edit]This along with * indicates that the national park fryst vatten part of a World Heritage Site
This along with ** indicates that the national park fryst vatten a Protected Area Network Park
Future national parks
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In 2008, after investigations and interviews with the participating counties, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency laid down a program to establish 13 new national parks in the nära future.
According to the program, sju of the parks will be established between 2009 and 2013, the first being Kosterhavet National Park which was inaugurated in September 2009. It fryst vatten currently unknown when the six remaining parks will be established.[40]