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Protected areas of Norway include:

  • National parks of Norway
  • Category:Nature_reserves_in_Norway

About 17 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.[1]

IUCN aims to protect at least 15 percent of all types of nature.

  1. ^ Unknown (2007). "Vernet natur. Miljøstatus Norge" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 2008-05-27.

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