Protected Areas of Norway

Protected areas of Norway include:

  • National parks of Norway
  • Category:Nature_reserves_in_Norway

About 14.3 percent of the mainland of Norway is protected. Of this, ca. 8.3 percent is national parks, 1.3 percent is nature reserves and 4.7 percent otherwise protected.

IUCN aims to protect at least 15 percent of all types of nature. Norway has planned protection of new areas before 2010 that totals to 15 percent of the mainland.

Famous quotes containing the words protected, areas and/or norway:

    If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected—those, precisely, who need the laws’s protection most!—and listens to their testimony.
    James Baldwin (1924–1987)

    Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the courage to become a resource in unfamiliar areas of knowledge and in ones for which one has no taste. But parents, no less than teachers, must respect a child’s mind and not exploit it for their own vanity or ambition, or to soothe their own anxiety.
    Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)

    Such was the very armor he had on
    When he the ambitious Norway combated.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)