!!!Naturparks in Österreich

Nature Parks in Austria, special areas in Austria that enjoy legal 
privileges on grands of their extraordinary flora and fauna or 
outstanding landscape:

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Lower Austria: Blockheide/Eibenstein bei Gmuend ("Wobbling Stones", 
forms of weathered granite), Dobersberg/Thayatal (riverine meadow 
landscape in the Northern Waldviertel area; game preserve with fallow 
deer and wild boar, only fern trail in Austria, collection of minerals 
and insects in Dobersberg castle), oak grove near Klosterneuburg 
(fruit trail), pine-tree mountains (west of Moedling), Gamsstein 
Alpine footlands at Hollenstein/Ypps (Alpine foreland), Geras bei Horn 
(game preserve with wild boar, red deer and aurochs, Hohe Wand near 
Wiener Neustadt (roe deer, red deer, chamois, Alpine marmots, wood 
grouse and grey hen, moufflons, Alpine ibex (in reserve), 
Jauerling-Wachau (near Melk, mushroom and medicinal herbs museum), 
Laxenburg Castle gardens, turned into a historicist nature reserve 
under Emperor Franz II (formerly an English garden; rich in bird 
species), Leiser Berge mountains (Ernstbrunn wildlife reserve), 
Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge (wild boar, reed deer in reserve), 
Nordwald (typical Northern Weinviertel landscape), Oetscher-Tormaeuer 
(Alpine nature reserve, largest natural rapid-river area in Austria); 
roe deer, chamois, otter, golden eagle, black and hazel grouse, wood 
grouse), Sandstein-Wienerwald/Purkersdorf (trail, game reserve, touch 
paddock for children), Seebenstein-Tuerkensturz (recreational area 
with natural pond), Schwarzau im Gebirge (collection of alpine 
flowers, chamois preserve and golden eagles), Sierningtal-Siedling 
(small animal reserve), Sparbach (in the Vienna woods; fallow deer, 
wild boar, moufflons, pygmy donkeys). Salzburg: Aigen, Buchberg, 
Kuehschwalb at the foot of the Hohe Goell mountain, Untersberg 
mountain (to the southeast of Salzburg City, game reserve with red 
deer, fallow deer and moufflons)

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Steiermark: Grebenzen (at the Carinthian border; important 
intermediate stop for migratory birds), Poellauer Tal Valley near 
Hartberg (trail), Soelktaeler Valleys (water trail).


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