- Altmühl Valley Nature Park
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- Bliesgau UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
- Bourtanger Moor International Nature Park
- Düben Heath Nature Park
- Eifel National Park
- Elbe Riverside UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
- Erzgebirge Mountains/Vogtland Nature Park
- Fichtel Mountain Nature Park
- Franconian Forest Nature Park
- Franconian Heights Nature Park
- Franconian Switzerland Nature Park - Veldenstein Forest
- Hainich National Park
- UNESCO-Hamburg Wadden Sea Biosphere Reserve
- Nationalpark Hamburgisches Wattenmeer
- Harz National Park
- Harz Mountains Nature Park and Geopark
- Hoher Fläming Hills Nature Park
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- Nationalpark Jasmund
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- UNESCO-Lake Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve
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- Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park
- UNESCO-Lower Saxony Wadden Sea Biosphere Reserve
- Lüneburg Heath Nature Park
- Müritz National Park
- Nagelfluhkette Nature Park
- North/Central Black Forest Nature Park
- Lower Oder Valley National Park
- UNESCO-Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve
- Peene Valley River Landscape Park
- Rhineland Nature Park
- Rhön UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
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- The Thuringian Forest Nature Park
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- Uckermark Lakes Nature Park
- Upper Danube Nature Park
- UNESCO-Upper Lusatian Moorland Biosphere Reserve
- Usedom Island Nature Park
- The Vulkaneifel European Geopark and Nature Park
- Nationalpark Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft
- Weserbergland Nature Park
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UNESCO-Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea and Hallig Islands Biosphere Reserve
In 1990 UNESCO recognised the Wadden Sea National Park on the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein as a biosphere reserve. In 2005 the five inhabited Hallig islands (small undyked islands in the North Frisian Wadden Sea) were incorporated as a development zone.
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Both the Wadden Sea and the Hallig islands biosphere in Schleswig-Holstein are defined by the tides. Twice a day, the vast mudflats are flooded and twice a day they re-emerge when the tide recedes, creating a fertile habitat for countless plants and animals. Take a guided tour of the mudflats and you can wander about on the seabed and find mudflat worms, cockles and shore crabs. Or take a boat to the seal colonies with one of the national park's partner organisations.
Since 2005, the inhabited Hallig islands of Gröde, Hooge, Langeness, Nordstrandischmoor and Oland have been included in the biosphere reserve as a development zone. This is a cultivated landscape where nature and man work in harmony. Traditional, low-impact agriculture, such as pasture management, is a feature of the islands.
Located in Northern Friesland in the northern part of the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea, the Hallig islands are small marsh islands. Protective dykes, where they exist, are relatively low. The houses are built on man-made hills known as Warften. The flooding that often occurs in autumn and winter is just part of daily reality for the almost 300 inhabitants of the islands.