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Areas under legal protection
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P1659
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| 1996-2025 | Gmina | 17 |
The total of areas under legal protection for Poland since 1995, in order to eliminate double counting of the same area, does not include nature reserves, documentation sites, ecological areas and landscape-nature complexes located within the boundaries of landscape parks and protected landscape areas. Data on the areas of special nature value under legal protection does not take into account information on Natura 2000 areas. Data on forms of nature protection are as of 31 December. Since 2009, in connection with the entry into force of the Act of 23 January 2009 amending certain acts in connection with changes in the organisation and division of public administration tasks in a voivodship (Journal of Laws 2009, No. 92, item 753), introducing, inter alia, amendments to the Act on Nature Conservation, the competencies of some entities with regard to the establishment of certain forms of nature protection have changed. Landscape parks and protected landscape areas were transferred to the competence of voivodship regional councils, and since 2009 all these areas have been reported in the OS-7 report by them. Documentation sites, ecological areas, landscape-nature complexes and monuments of nature were transferred to the competence of gmina offices, and since 2009 they have reported on the aforementioned forms of protection in the SG-01 report. Since 1999 one report has been drawn up for urban-rural gminas, with no information for urban and rural parts separately.
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Areas under legal protection - indicators
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P3312
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| 1996-2025 | Gmina | 5 |
Indicators used for the calculations of the geodesic area include the change of the of area the country introduced in 2023. The change involves including the Bay of Puck and a part of the Bay of Gdańsk to the area of internal sea waters. Detailed information is to be found in the group: Geodetic area of the country.
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Botanical and zoological gardens
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P3218
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| 2010-2025 | Region (NUTS 2) | 4 |
Botanical and zoo gardens are, among other things, obliged to cultivate plants and breed animals of threatened species in order to protect them ex situ, which should aim to restore individuals of these species to the natural environment.
Botanical and zoological gardens are also a type of green area.
Suorce: Data of the General Directorate for Environmental Protection.
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Monuments of nature
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P1660
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| 1996-2025 | Gmina | 2 |
Data are as of 31 December. Since 2009, due to the entry into force of the Act of 23 January 2009 amending certain acts in connection with changes in the organisation and division of public administration tasks in the voivodship (Journal of Laws 2009, No. 92, item 753), introducing, inter alia, amendments to the Act on Nature Conservation, the competencies of some entities with regard to the establishment of certain forms of nature protection have changed. Landscape parks and protected landscape areas were transferred to the competence of voivodship regional councils, and since 2009 all these areas have been reported in the OS-7 report. Documentation sites, ecological areas, landscape-nature complexes and monuments of nature were transferred to the competence of gminas, and since 2009 they have reported on the aforementioned forms of protection in the SG-01 report. Since 1999 one report has been drawn up for urban-rural communes, with no information for urban and rural parts separately.
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Natura 2000 sites
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P3217
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| 2005-2025 | Region (NUTS 2) | 4 |
The Natura 2000 sites can extend to some or all of the areas and objects covered by other forms of nature protection. Data on the area Nature 2000 sites (presented in the Local Data Bank, the LDB) do not include information on areas located at sea. The absolute area of the Natura 2000 sites transferred annually to the European Commission (the EC) is the result of spatial analysis of summing the vector boundary layer in software belonging to spatial information systems. The value of the area transferred to the EC (including areas located at sea) differs in relation to the sums of the areas of individual voivodeships and the sea due to the dynamics of state borders (e.g. the eastern and western borders shift along with the progressive meandering of the rivers constituting the border; their current shape is different than at the time when the oldest Natura 2000 sites were designated). Work on specifying the course of the boundaries of the designated Natura 2000 sites is still in progress, so the areas of the designated sites may change in the future.
Source: data of the General Directorate for Environmental Protection.
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