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The Bear Sanctuary Prishtina was founded in 2013 by Four Paws in collaboration with KFOR, the Municipality of Pristina, and the Ministry of Environment [3] in Kosovo. The sanctuary provides species-appropriate place for all "restaurant bears", who now enjoy their life in large enclosures resembling the bears’ natural habitat.
Kobuk Valley National Park is an American national park in the Arctic region of northwestern Alaska, located about 25 miles (40 km) north of the Arctic Circle.The park was designated in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to preserve the 100 ft (30 m) high Great Kobuk Sand Dunes and the surrounding area which includes caribou migration routes.
Protected areas of Kosovo. This is a list of protected areas in Kosovo which includes 2 national parks, 11 nature reserves, 99 natural monuments and 3 protected landscapes. [1] The total area of all protected areas in the country is 118,913 hectares (1,189.13 km 2 ). The national policy for governing and management of the national parks is ...
The Sharr Mountains National Park ( Albanian: Parku Kombëtar Malet e Sharrit; Serbian: Национални парк Шар-планина, romanized : Nacionalni park Šar-planina) is a national park in southwestern Kosovo. It covers 53,272 hectares (532.72 km 2 ), centered on the northern Sharr Mountains, a mountain range which also extends ...
The country has only two designated national parks. The Bjeshkët e Nemuna National Park in western and southwestern Kosovo is the largest national park by area in the country. The park encompasses 63,028 hectares (630.28 km 2 ) of the mountainous region of the Albanian Alps .
The Fortress of the Bear is a non-profit bear refuge and education center in Sitka, Alaska. It was established in 2003 by Les and Evy Kinnear at the Gary Paxton Industrial Park, which previously housed the Sitka Pulp Mill . Sitka conservation organizations opposed the Kinnears' plan to open a refuge, believing that wild bears should not be ...
Germia Park ( Albanian: Parku i Gërmisë; Serbian: Парк Грмија, romanized : Park Grmija) is a regional park located in the northeast of Pristina, Kosovo, and covers an area of 62 square kilometres (24 sq mi). This mountain massif is a part of the Rhodope Mountains, which lie from the Black Mountain of Skopje to Kopaonik mountains.
Kopaonik ( Albanian: Kopaoniku; Serbian Cyrillic: Копаоник, pronounced [kɔpaɔ̌niːk]) is a mountain range located in Kosovo and Serbia. The highest point is the Pančić's Peak with 2,017 m (6,617 ft). The central part of the Kopaonik plateau was declared a national park in 1981 which today covers an area of 121.06 km 2 (46.74 sq mi).