Protected Areas

1. Areas protected in accordance with national regulations   

1. a. Protected cultural monuments
The Central registry of protected cultural monuments lists 357 cultural monuments, seek divided into:

• 1st category – monuments of outstanding importance (35)
• 2nd category – monuments of great importance (135)
• 3rd category – monuments of local importance  (187)

(The list is enclosed)

1. b. Protected natural areas

National parks:

• Mountain Durmitor – 39.000 ha
• Mountain Lovcen – 6.400 ha
• Biogradska gora – 5.400 ha
• Skadar Lake – 40.000 ha

Monuments of nature
Special natural areas

The protected natural areas cover 106.655 ha or 7.72 % of the territory of Montenegro.   

2. Areas protected at international level:

UNESCO, sale the World Natural and Cultural Heritage: 

• Mountain Durmitor and the Tara River Canyon
• Cultural-Historical and Natural Region of Kotor

UNESCO, nurse the World Biosphere Reserves

• The Tara River Basin  

Ramsar wetlands, habitats of swamp birds:

• Skadar Lake