page_title: Protected areas of Belarus
section_title: List of protected areas
hierarchical_section_title: Protected areas of Belarus / List of protected areas
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Eiken-linden-haagbeukenbos in een strikt beschermde zone binnen N.P. Belavezjskaja Poesjtsja, Oblast Brest, Wit-Rusland. Nederlands: Oak-lime-hornbeam forest in a strictly protected zone of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha N.P., Brest Region, Belarus.
context_page_description: The protected areas of Belarus are governed by the 1994 law "About the Protected Nature Areas". and its amendments.
context_section_description: In 2008, there were five zapovedniks and national parks, 84 zakazniks of national significance, 349 zakazniks of local significance, 305 nature monuments of national significance, and 544 nature monuments of local significance. 
  List of national parks of Belarus
  Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve, Minsk Region and Vitebsk Region, 852 km² (329 sq mi).
  Polesie State Radioecological Reserve, Gomel Region, 2,161 km² (834 sq mi). This reserve is heavily contaminated by the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster. It borders Ukraine and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
  Białowieża Forest National park and UNESCO biosphere reserve
  Naliboki forest
caption: Belovezhskaya Pushcha
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