National parks of France

National parks of France
National parks in France

The national parks of France is a system of nine national parks throughout metropolitan France and its overseas departments, coordinated by the government agency Parcs Nationaux de France. The French national parks protect a total area of 3,710 km² in core area and 9,162 km² in buffer zones in metropolitan France. This puts over 2% of the total area of metropolitan France under some level of protection. French national parks draw over seven million visitors every year.

A tenth national park, the first located in mainland France since the creation of the Mercantour National Park in 1979, is being built in the Calanques of Marseille and Cassis, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. As of 2009, the project, on which work has been in progress for the last ten years, is now very mature and the creation of the national park is planned for late 2011.[1]

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