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the 36th
Environmental Minister's Conference in 1991 recommended the use of the owl symbol in future in the whole of Germany to designate nature reserves. This recommendation was not universally adopted by the states, in whom the jurisdiction for conservation policy was vested. For that reason there
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states is identical. About 60% of all nature reserves are smaller than 50 hectares in area. In such small areas experts say that the achievement of conservation goals is at risk, because negative influences from the surrounding area cannot be sufficiently mitigated. The number and size of nature
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Because legal restrictions are placed on activity within German nature reserves they have to be signed on the ground. Only by this means can e.g. walkers know that they are entering a nature reserve and may not e.g. leave the tracks and paths. For historical reasons there is no standard sign used
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At the end of 2008 there were 8,413 nature reserves in
Germany with a total area of 1,271,582 hectares. That corresponds to 3.6% of the area of Germany. The lowest percentage areas are in the states of Hesse (1.8%) and Rhineland-Palatinate (1.9%). The percentage coverage in the
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or terms that could be confused with it for anything other than the legally protected areas is forbidden under this law.
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reserves has increased considerably in recent decades. In 1995 there were only 5,314
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The following lists detail the nature reserves by state:
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315:"Gesetz über Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege"
71:Category IV Habitat and Species Management Area
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18:Nature reserve (Germany)
296:Nature parks in Germany
60:Bundesnaturschutzgesetz
862:Bosnia and Herzegovina
480:Bosnia and Herzegovina
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145:Owl on pentagonal sign
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129:in a green triangle.
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562:Kazakhstan
465:Azerbaijan
386:2011-05-26
349:2016-10-04
324:2016-04-07
302:References
959:Lithuania
753:Gibraltar
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284:Thuringia
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867:Bulgaria
773:Svalbard
758:Guernsey
705:Abkhazia
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485:Bulgaria
290:See also
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592:Moldova
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455:Armenia
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877:Cyprus
768:Jersey
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1044:Spain
969:Malta
939:Italy
743:Åland
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557:Italy
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194:new
190:old
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