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nature park
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type of protected area in some countries, common in Europe
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Encyclopedic overview
The Hutovo Blato protected marshland and bird reservation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
A nature park, or sometimes natural park, is a designation for a protected area by means of long-term land planning, sustainable resource management and limitation of agricultural and real estate developments. These valuable landscapes are preserved in their present ecological state and promoted for ecotourism purposes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nature park” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.