Protected areas of Poland include the following types, as defined by the Act on Protection of Nature (Ustawa o ochronie przyrody) of 16 April 2004:[1]
- 23 National Parks (see list of National Parks of Poland)
- 121 Landscape Parks (see list of Landscape Parks of Poland)
- over 1300 nature reserves
- 450 protected landscape areas (obszary chronionego krajobrazu)
- about 500 Natura 2000 sites
- geological "documentary sites" (stanowiska dokumentacyjne)
- over 6,000 "ecological sites" (użytki ekologiczne)
- "nature and landscape complexes" (zespoły przyrodniczo-krajobrazowe)
- about 33,000 natural monuments (mainly trees, also some caves etc.)
