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Austria has six national parks, all of them internationally accepted according to the IUCN standard. The first national park, Hohe Tauern, was established in 1981. [1] They include each of Austria's most important natural landscape types — alluvial forest, Alpine massif, Pannonian steppe and rocky valleys. [2]
Donau-Auen National Park (German: Nationalpark Donau-Auen) covers 93 square kilometres in Vienna and Lower Austria and is one of the largest remaining floodplains of the Danube in Middle Europe. The German word Aue (variant Au ) means " river island , wetland , floodplain, riparian woodland ", i.e. a cultivated landscape in a riparian zone .
The basis for the national park is the Lower Austrian National Park Act. It was agreed between the republic and the federal state back in 1997. It is largely based on the international criteria for national parks published by the IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The Thayatal is referred to as a Category II area.
The Lobau (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is a Vienna floodplain on the northern side of the Danube in Donaustadt and partly in Großenzersdorf, Lower Austria.It has been part of the Danube-Auen National Park since 1996 and has been a protected area since 1978.
The Vienna Woods [1] (German: Wienerwald, pronounced [ˈviːnɐˌvalt] ⓘ) are forested highlands that form the northeastern foothills of the Northern Limestone Alps in the states of Lower Austria and Vienna. The 45-kilometre-long (28 mi) and 20–30-kilometre-wide (12–19 mi) range of hills is heavily wooded and a popular recreation area ...
Pages in category "National parks of Austria" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... National Park Neusiedler See-Seewinkel;