Protected Nature Areas in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County

The wealth of natural heritage in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County has created the need for special protection of important natural areas. To preserve the natural heritage of the County, 30 natural areas and individual features of importance have been protected by means of eight different categories. Most of these protected areas were proclaimed in the period from the 1950s to the 1980s. The first to be protected, when it was declared a special forest vegetation reserve in 1949, was Dundo Forest on the island of Rab.

The total surface of the protected natural areas in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County amounts to 263.3 km2, which represents 3.35 % of the total (land and sea) area of the County. The total surface area of the protected natural areas of land is 218.54 km2, or 6.09 % of the total land area. The only protected marine area is the waters around the island of Prvić, including the Grgur Channel, whose surface area comes to 44.76 km2, or 1.05 % of the total marine area of the County.

NAME OF PROTECTED NATURE AREAIUCN CATEGORY OF PROTECTED NATURE AREASURFACE AREA IN HECTARESYEAR OF PROCLAMATIONIN THE TERRITORY OF TOWN /MUNICIPALITY
SPECIAL RESERVE
SPECIAL ORNITHOLOGICAL RESERVE
Glavine – Mala lukaI1 1431970.Baška, Vrbnik
Fojiška – Pod PredošćicaI5141986.Cres
Mali bok – KoromačnaI7961986.Cres
SPECIAL BOTANICAL-ZOOLOGICAL RESERVE
Island of PrvićI5 7601972.Baška, Lopar
SPECIAL RESERVE OF FOREST VEGETATION
Dundo ForestI1011949.Rab
Debela Lipa – Velika RebarI1251964.Delnice, Lokve
GlavotokI11969.Krk
KošljunIV71969.Krk
NATURAL MONUMENT
GEOMORPHOLOGICAL NATURAL MONUMENT
Lokvarka CaveIII1961.Lokve
Gotovž PonorIII11969.Klana
Zametska CaveIII1981.Rijeka
INDIVIDUAL TREES
Old Yew Tree in MeđediIII1965.Vrbovsko
Old Oak at Guljanov Dolac IIII2002.Cres
Old Oak at Guljanov Dolac IIIII2002.Crikvenica
PROTECTED LANDSCAPE
KamačnikV832002.Vrbovsko
LoparV931969.Lopar
LisinaV14361998.Matulji, Opatija, Lanišće
Vražji prolaz and Zeleni virIII2521962.Skrad, Delnice
FOREST PARK
Japlenški vrhIV1731953.Delnice
GolubinjakIV531955.Lokve
KomrčarIV81965.Rab
ČikatIV2211992.Mali Lošinj
Pod JavoriIV401993.Mali Lošinj
PARK ARCHITECTURE MONUMENT
Castle Park in Severin na Kupi61966.Vrbovsko
Angiolina Park 

Margarita Park

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1968.Opatija
Sveti Jakov Park 1 2010.Opatija