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255 biosphere reserves in 33 countries
Complete list of biosphere reserves available here

(Last updated: 03 March 2008)

Countries	Date of approval	Extension
AUSTRIA
Gossenköllesee	1977
Gurgler Kamm	1977
Lobau	1977
Neusiedler See	1977
Grosses Walsertal	2000
Wienerwald	2005

BELARUS
Berezinskiy	1978
Belovezhskaya Pushcha	1993
Pribuzhskoye Polesie	2004

BULGARIA
Steneto	1977
Alibotouch	1977
Bistrichko Branichté	1977
Boitine	1977
Djendema	1977
Doupkata	1977
Doupki-Djindjiritza	1977
Kamtchia	1977
Koupena	1977
Mantaritza	1977
Ouzounboudjak	1977
Parangalitza	1977
Srébarna	1977
Tchervenata sténa	1977
Tchoupréné	1977
Tsaritchina	1977

CANADA
Mont Saint Hilaire	1978
Waterton	1979
Long Point	1986
Riding Mountain	1986
Charlevoix	1988
Niagara Escarpment	1990
Clayoquot Sound	2000
Redberry Lake	2000
Lac Saint-Pierre	2000
Mount Arrowsmith	2000
South West Nova	2001
Thousand Islands - Frontenac Arch	2002
Georgian Bay Littoral	2004
Manicouagan Uapishka	2007
Fundy	2007

CROATIA
Velebit Mountain	1977

CZECH REPUBLIC
Krivoklátsko	1977
Trebon Basin	1977
Lower Morava	2003	Palava 1986 extended and renamed in 2003
Sumava	1990
Bílé Karpathy	1996
Krkokonose (see C/P 1: Czech Republic-Poland)

CZECH REP/POLAND
Krkokonose/Karkonosze	1992

DENMARK
North-East Greenland	1977

ESTONIA
West Estonian Archipelago	1990

FINLAND
North Karelian	1992
Archipelago Sea Area	1994

FRANCE
Commune de Fakarava	1977	Atoll de Taiaro, extended and renamed in 2006
Vallée du Fango	1977	Extension 1990
Camargue (delta du Rhône)	1977	Camargue, extended and renamed in 2006
Cévennes	1984
Iroise	1988
Mont Ventoux	1990
Archipel de la Guadeloupe	1992
Luberon	1997
Pays de Fontainebleau	1998
Vosges du Nord/Pfälzerwald (see F/G 1: France-Germany)

FRANCE/GERMANY
Vosges du Nord / Pfälzerwald	1998	Voges du Nord established in 1988 and Pfälzerwald in 1992

GERMANY
Flusslandschaft Elbe	1979	Extension 1997
Vessertal-Thüringen Forest	1979	Extension 1987 / 1990
Berchtesgaden Alps	1990
Wadden Sea and Hallig Islands of Schleswig-Holstein	1990	Waddensea of Schleswig-Holstein extended and renamed in 2004
Schorfheide-Chorin	1990
Spreewald	1991
Rügen	1991
Rhön	1991
Waddensea of Lower Saxony	1992
Waddensea of Hamburg	1992
Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichlandschaft	1996
Schaalsee	2000
Pfälzerwald (see F/G 1: France - Germany)

GREECE
Gorge of Samaria	1981
Mount Olympus	1981

HUNGARY
Aggtelek	1979
Hortobágy	1979
Kiskunság	1979
Lake Fertö	1979
Pilis	1980

IRELAND
North Bull Island	1981
Killarney	1982

ISRAEL
Mount Carmel	1996

ITALY
Collemeluccio-Montedimezzo	1977
Circeo	1977
Miramare	1979
Cilento and Vallo di Diano	1997
Somma-Vesuvio and Miglio d'Oro	1997
Valle del Ticino	2002
Tuscan Islands	2003
Selva Pisana	2004

LATVIA
North Vidzeme	1997

MONTENEGRO
Tara River Basin	1976

NETHERLANDS
Waddensea Area	1986

POLAND
Babia Gora	1976	Extension 1997/2001
Bialowieza	1976	Extension 2005
Lukajno Lake	1976
Slowinski	1976
Puszcza Kampinoska	2000
West Polesie	2002
Karkonosze (see CZE/POL 1: Czech Republic - Poland)
East Carpathians (see POL/SVK/UKR 1: Poland - Slovakia - Ukraine)
Tatra (see POL/SVK 1: Poland - Slovakia)

POLAND/SLOVAKIA
Tatra	1992

POLAND/SLOVAKIA/UKRAINE
East Carpathians	1998	East Carpathian / East Beskid (P/S) Established 1992

PORTUGAL
Paúl do Boquilobo	1981
Corvo Island	2007
Graciosa Island	2007

ROMANIA
Pietrosul Mare	1979
Retezat	1979
Danube Delta (see R/U 1: Romania - Ukraine)

ROMANIA/UKRAINE
Danube Delta	1998	Danube Delta (Roumania) Established 1979, Ext.1992 Dunaisky (Ukraine), Established 1998

RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Kavkazskiy	1978
Okskiy	1978	Part of Oka River Valley until 2000
Sikhote-Alin	1978
Tsentral'nochernozem	1978
Astrakhanskiy	1984
Kronotskiy	1984
Laplandskiy	1984
Pechoro-llychskiy	1984
Sayano-Shushenskiy	1984
Sokhondinskiy	1984
Voronezhskiy	1984
Tsentral'nolesnoy	1985
Baikalskyi	1986	Part of Lake Baikal until 2000
Tzentralnosibirskii	1986
Chernyje Zemli	1993
Taimyrsky	1995
Ubsunorskaya Kotlovina	1997
Daursky	1997
Teberda	1997
Katunsky	2000
Prioksko-Terrasnyi	1978	Part of Oka River Valley until 2000
Barguzinskyi	1986	Part of Lake Baikal until 2000
Nerusso-Desnianskoe-Polesie	2001
Visimskiy	2001
Vodlozersky	2001
Commander Islands	2002
Darvinskiy	2002
Nijegorodskoe Zavolje	2002
Smolensk Lakeland	2002
Ugra	2002
Far East Marine	2003
Kedrovaya Pad	2004
Kenozersky	2004
Valdaishy	2004
Khankaiskiy	2005
Raifa Forest	2005	Unit of The Great Volzhsko-Kamsky
Sarali Land between Rivers	2005	Unit of The Great Volzhsko-Kamsky
Middle-Volga Integreted	2006
Great Volzhsko-Kamsky	2007	Composed of Raifa and Sarali BRs
Rostovsky	2008

SERBIA
Golija-Studenica	2001

SLOVAKIA
Slovenský Kras	1977
Polana	1990
Tatra (see P/S 1: Poland - Slovakia)
East Carpathians (see P/S/U 1: Poland - Slovakia - Ukraine)

SLOVENIA
Julian Alps	2003
The Karst	2004

SPAIN
Grazalema	1977
Ordesa-Viñamala	1977
Montseny	1978
Doñana	1980
Mancha Húmeda	1980
Las Sierras de Cazorla y Segura	1983
Marismas del Odiel	1983
La Palma	1983	Extended and renamed in 1997 and 2002
Urdaibai	1984
Sierra Nevada	1986
Cuenca Alta del Río Manzanares	1992
Lanzarote	1993
Menorca	1993	Change in zonation 2004
Sierra de las Nieves y su Entorno	1995
Cabo de Gata-Nijar	1997
Isla de El Hierro	2000
Bardenas Reales	2000
Muniellos	2000	Extension 2003 - Elemento de la RB Gran Cantábrica
Somiedo	2000
Redes	2001
Las Dehesas de Sierra Morena	2002
Terras do Miño	2002
Valle de Laciana	2003	Elemento de la RB Gran Cantábrica
Picos de Europa	2003	Elemento de la RB Gran Cantábrica
Monfragüe	2003
Valles del Jubera, Leza, Cidacos y Alhama	2003
Babia	2004	Elemento de la RB Gran Cantábrica
Área de Allariz	2005
Gran Canaria	2005
Sierra del Rincón	2005
Los Valles de Omaña y Luna	2005	Elemento de la RB Gran Cantábrica
Alto de Bernesga	2005	Elemento de la RB Gran Cantábrica
Los Argüellos	2005	Elemento de la RB Gran Cantábrica
Os Ancares Lucenses y Montes de Cervantes, Navia y Becerrea	2006	Elemento de la RB Gran Cantábrica
Los Ancares Leoneses	2006	Elemento de la RB Gran Cantábrica
Las Sierras de Béjar y Francia	2006
Intercontinental BR of the Mediterranean	2006
Río Eo, Oscos y Terras de Buron	2007

SWEDEN
Lake Torne Area	1986
Kristianstad Vattenrike	2005

SWITZERLAND
Parc Suisse	1979
Entlebuch	2001

TURKEY
Camili	2005

UKRAINE
Chernomorskiy	1984
Askaniya-Nova	1985
Carpathian	1992
Shatskiy	2002
Dunaisky (see Danube Delta R/U 1: Romania - Ukraine)	1998	See Danube Delta (Romania / Ukraine)
East Carpathians (see P/S/U 1: Poland - Slovakia - Ukraine)

UNITED KINGDOM
Beinn Eighe	1976
Braunton Burrows	1976	Extention 2002
Cairnsmore of Fleet	1976
Dyfi	1976
Loch Druidibeg	1976
Moor House-Upper Teesdale	1976
North Norfolk Coast	1976
Silver Flowe-Merrick Kells	1976
Taynish	1977

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Aleutian Islands	1976
Big Bend	1976
Cascade Head	1976
Central Plains	1976
Channel Islands	1976
Coram	1976
Denali	1976
Desert	1976
Everglades & Dry Tortugas	1976
Fraser	1976
Glacier	1976
H.J. Andrews	1976
Hubbard Brook	1976
Jornada	1976
Luquillo	1976
Noatak	1976
Olympic	1976
Organ Pipe Cactus	1976
Rocky Mountain	1976
San Dimas	1976
San Joaquin	1976
Sequoia-Kings Canyon	1976
Stanislaus-Tuolumne	1976
Three Sisters	1976
Virgin Islands	1976
Yellowstone	1976
Beaver Creek	1976
Konza Prairie	1978
Niwot Ridge	1979
University of Michigan Biological Station	1979
Virginia Coast	1979
Hawaiian Islands	1980
Isle Royale	1980
Big Thicket	1981
Guanica	1981
California Coast Ranges	1983
Central Gulf Coast Plain	1983
South Atlantic Coastal Plain	1983
Mojave and Colorado Deserts	1984
Carolinian-South Atlantic	1986
Glacier Bay-Admiralty Is.	1986
Golden Gate	1988
New Jersey Pinelands	1988
Southern Appalachian	1988
Champlain-Adirondak	1989
Mammoth Cave Area	1990	Extention 1996
Land Between The Lakes Area	1991

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