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Parkovi Hrvatske

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image by Tomislav Šipek, 2 September 2021

• Introduction
• Vertical flag
• Flag of Nature Protection (Zaštita prorode)

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• Croatia
• UNESCO
• Parks of Croatia

Introduction

Croatian National Parks and Nature Parks are grouped under the name Parks of Croatia (Parkovi Hrvatske).
The group consists of 8 National Parks and 12 Nature Parks.

National Parks of Croatia are:

• Brijuni National Park
• Kornati National Park
• Krka National Park
• Mljet National Park
• Paklenica National Park
• Plitvice Lakes National Park
• Northern Velebit National Park
• Risnjak National Park

• Biokovo Nature Park
• Dinara Nature Park
• Kopački Rit Nature Park
• Lastovo Archipelago Nature Park
• Lonjsko Polje Nature Park
• Medvednica Nature Park
• Papuk Nature Park
• Telašćica Nature Park
• Učka Nature Park
• Velebit Nature Park
• Vrana Lake Nature Park
• Žumberak - Samobor Highlands Nature Park

https://www.parkovihrvatske.hr
https://web.facebook.com/ppzumberaksamoborskogorje

Tomislav Šipek, 2 September 2021

Vertical flag

image by Tomislav Šipek, 2 September 2021

Flag of Nature Protection (Zaštita prorode)

image by Tomislav Šipek, 2 September 2021

As the parks are under protection, the flag with the logo of the Nature Protection of the Republic of Croatia is also used.
https://www.vecernji.hr
Tomislav Šipek, 2 September 2021

Brijuni National Park (NP Brijuni)

  images by Tomislav Šipek, 5 September 2021

Brijuni National Park is an archipelago composed of 3 islands and 11 islets. It is located in the County of Istria, and the area is slightly less than 34 square kilometers.
It was declared a national park on October 27, 1983. Brijuni was known as the summer residence of Josip Broz Tito, the president of the SFRY. Today, various political rallies are also held there, as well as theater performances.

The flag of the Brijuni National Park is blue or white with the park logo. The logo of the park, which at first resembles a fish, actually shows the shape of the island of Gaz, an integral part of the Brijuni National Park.
Tomislav Šipek, 5 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 5 September 2021

Pennant

image by Tomislav Šipek, 5 September 2021

Photos

Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4
Tomislav Šipek, 4 September 2021

Kornati National Park (NP Kornati)

New flag

image by Tomislav Šipek, 6 September 2021

Kornati National Park consists of 89 islands, islets and cliffs and are named after the largest island Kornat. The national park was founded in 1980, covers an area of ​​220 square kilometers and is located in Šibenik-Knin County.
The logo is simple and represents the island group that the Kornati are. The flag is blue. Old flag is white with old logo.
Tomislav Šipek, 6 September 2021

Old flag

image by Tomislav Šipek, 6 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 6 September 2021

Photos

Photo 1, Photo 2
Tomislav Šipek, 4 September 2021

Krka National Park (NP Krka)

image by Tomislav Šipek, 7 September 2021

Krka National Park covers the area along the river Krka and is known for its large number of lakes and waterfalls. It became a National Park on January 24, 1985, covers 109 square kilometers and is located in Šibenik-Knin County. In the area of ​​the Krka National Park is the second oldest hydroelectric power plant in the world, built on August 28, 1895, just three days after the first hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls.
The logo represents the waterfalls of the river Krka, while the flag is blue.

Tomislav Šipek, 7 September 2021

Vertical flag

image by Tomislav Šipek, 7 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 7 September 2021

Photos

Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3
Tomislav Šipek, 7 September 2021

Mljet National Park (NP Mljet)

image by Tomislav Šipek, 8 September 2021

Mljet National Park is located in the northwestern part of the island of Mljet. It covers an area of ​​54 square kilometers and is located in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County. Mljet National Park was founded on November 11, 1960.
The logo of the Mljet National Park shows a view of the islet of Sveta Marija (St. Mary) on the Veliko jezero (Great Lake), which is located within the island of Mljet.

https://www.liberoportal.hr/vijesti/veliki-dan-za-mljet-stigla-voda-s-kopna-veliki-dan-za-otok-svojim-dolaskom-obiljezila-i-predsjednica-grabar-kitarovic--
Tomislav Šipek, 8 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 8 September 2021

Northern Velebit National Park (NP Sjeverni Velebit)

image by Tomislav Šipek, 9 September 2021

Northern Velebit National Park (Nacionalni park Sjeverni Velebit) is located on the northern slopes of the Velebit Mountain in Lika-Senj County, and its area is 109 square kilometers. It was founded on June 9, 1999.

The national park logo represents a bear’s paw, and uses a green flag.
Tomislav Šipek, 9 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 9 September 2021

Photo

Photo 1
Tomislav Šipek, 9 September 2021

Paklenica National Park (NP Paklenica)

image by Tomislav Šipek, 4 September 2021

Paklenica National Park was declared on October 19, 1949. The area covers about 95 square kilometers and is located in Zadar County.
Paklenica is a karst river canyon known for its rocks and so popular among climbers especially because of the proximity of the sea.
The logo of the Paklenica National Park itself represents the karst canyon.The flag is white with logo.

https://triprabbits.com/hr/kako-doci-do-paklenice-paklenica-hrvatska-znamenitosti-atrakcije/
Tomislav Šipek, 4 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 4 September 2021

Plitvice Lakes National Park (NP Plitvička jezera)

New flag

image by Tomislav Šipek, 3 September 2021

Plitvice Lakes National Park (Nacionalni park Plitvička jezera) was declared on April 8, 1949 and is located 91% in Lika-Senj County and 9% in Karlovac County. The area is about 300 square kilometers.
The park uses a flag, and it is white with the national park logo. The logo represents a Lika bear. Flags before and after 2014 are presented here:
https://np-plitvicka-jezera.hr/en/fznor-2/
http://www.likaplus.hr/plitvicka_j-korenica/gospodarstvo/ne_mislim_da_hoteli_moraju_ici_u_koncesiju/default.aspx
Tomislav Šipek, 3 September 2021

Old flag

image by Tomislav Šipek, 3 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 3 September 2021

Risnjak National Park (NP Risnjak)

image by Tomislav Šipek, 4 September 2021

Risnjak National Park is located in the most hilly and forested part of Croatia, in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. It covers 63.5 square kilometers and was founded on September 15, 1953.
A lynx was chosen for the national park logo, mainly because the name of the park itself actually means lynx habitat. So far I have not found any information about the new flag, but here I present the old flag, before 2014.

Tomislav Šipek, 4 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 4 September 2021

Biokovo Nature Park

image by Tomislav Šipek, 11 September 2021

Biokovo Nature Park includes the eponymous mountain massif Biokovo. It was founded in 1981, and covers 195.5 square kilometers, and is located in the Split-Dalmatia County.

The logo of the nature park depicts Biokovo as a mountain by the sea, which it actually is. The flag is blue with the logo while a white table flag is also noticed.
Tomislav Šipek, 11 September 2021

White flag

image by Tomislav Šipek, 11 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 11 September 2021

Dinara Nature Park

Dinara Nature Park is the youngest park in Croatia established on February 20, 2021. The area of ​​the park is 630.5 square kilometers and is the second largest park in Croatia. It stretches through Šibenik-Knin and Split-Dalmatia counties along the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina.It is named after the Dinara mountain on which it is located and the name of the mountain itself served as a toponym for the entire complex of mountains in the Western Balkans known as the Dinarides.

For now, the appearance of the logo, as well as the flags, are unknown, one can only guess that they could be in a green tone.
Tomislav Šipek, 21 September 2021

Kopaćki Rit Nature Park

image by Tomislav Šipek, 13 September 2021

Kopački Rit Nature Park is a floodplain between the rivers Danube and Drava and is one of the largest fluvial-wetland lowlands in Europe. The area of ​​the nature park is about 177 square kilometers, and is located in Osijek-Baranja County. It was founded in 1976.
The logo of the nature park represents a white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), and the flag is used in both green and white.
Tomislav Šipek, 13 September 2021

White flag

image by Tomislav Šipek, 13 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 13 September 2021

Lastovo Archipelago Nature Park

Lastovo Archipelago (Lastovsko otočje) Nature Park consists of an archipelago of 46 islands, islets and cliffs and a very indented coastline. It covers an area of ​​53 square kilometers on land, and 143 square kilometers at sea. It is located in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County. It was declared a park in September 2006.

The logo is represented by Peter's Fish.

The flag, for now, has not been noticed.
Tomislav Šipek, 21 September 2021

The St. Peter's Fish, Saint Pierre, John Dory, Latin Zeus faber, has a wide distribution around much of the world. In Europe, John Dory can be found from Scandinavian waters throughout the North Sea (although it is uncommon in these areas and is absent from the Baltic Sea). Its range continues through the Mediterranean and all around the entire continent of Africa. It is found throughout the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and parts of the Pacific. This species is, however, not found off the coasts of North or South America.

The name John Dory (which is sometimes written entirely in lower case as john dory) is of uncertain origin. John Dory was the subject of a folk song from the 1600s, although if there was ever any evidence of a link between this song and the fish it has been lost over the centuries. Another theory is that the John part of the name derives from the French word "jaune" which means "yellow". The alternative name of St. Peter’s Fish comes from an ancient legend. It is said that St. Peter picked this fish up from the Sea of Galilee, but instead of keeping it he returned it to the water. The black spot on the side of the John Dory is therefore known as St. Peter’s thumbprint and the species has the alternative name of St. Peter’s fish.

The black spot on the side of the John Dory is a defensive measure, used to confuse predators by fooling them into thinking they are looking at the eye and head of a much larger fish.
https://britishseafishing.co.uk/john-dory
British Sea Fishing
Ivan Sache, 21 September 2021

The Croatian official name for this fish is kovač (smith), but locals call it šempjer (probably from the French St. Pierre)
Tomislav Šipek, 22 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 21 September 2021

Lonjsko Polje Nature Park

image by Tomislav Šipek, 13 September 2021

Lonjsko Polje (Lonja Field) Nature Park is the largest protected wetland area in the entire Danube basin with an area of ​​506.5 square kilometers. It is located in Sisak-Moslavina County and to a lesser extent in Brod-Posavina County, and was founded in 1998.
The logo represents a spoonbill whose nest is a nature park. The flag is white in various variants.
Tomislav Šipek, 14 September 2021

Variant flags

   images by Tomislav Šipek, 14 September 2021

Old flag

image by Tomislav Šipek, 14 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 14 September 2021

Medvednica Nature Park

image by Tomislav Šipek, 12 September 2021

Medvednica Nature Park stretches along the mountain of the same name north of Zagreb. It was founded on June 16, 1981, and covers the area of ​​the City of Zagreb, Zagreb County and Krapina-Zagorje County. It covers an area of ​​about 179 square kilometers.
The logo represents the view of Medvednica mountain recognized by the television tower at the top of the mountain. The flag is green, while the older variant was white.
Tomislav Šipek, 12 September 2021

Old flag

image by Tomislav Šipek, 12 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 12 September 2021

Papuk Nature Park

   images by Tomislav Šipek, 15 September 2021

Papuk Nature Park is located in the mountainous forest parts of Papuk, and was declared a park on April 23, 1999. It is located on the territory of Požega-Slavonia and Virovitica-Podravina counties, and covers 336 square kilometers.
The logo depicts an ammonite fossil because this area was once part of the Pannonian Sea. The flag of the park is green in various variants, while before 2014 the white flag was used.
Tomislav Šipek, 15 September 2021

Old flag

image by Tomislav Šipek, 15 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 15 September 2021

Telašćica Nature Park

Telašćica Nature Park is a bay and the most natural port on the Adriatic and is located in the southern part of Dugi otok (Long Island). It covers an area of ​​71 square kilometers, of which 45 square kilometers refers to the sea. It was declared a nature park in 1988 and is located in Zadar County.

The logo shows the cliffs of Telašćica, which are up to 160 meters high, and another 90 under the sea.

I haven't noticed the flag yet.
Tomislav Šipek, 19 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 19 September 2021

Učka Nature Park

image by Tomislav Šipek, 17 September 2021

Učka Nature Park is located on the Učka mountain massif in Istria and Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. It covers an area of ​​160 square kilometers and was declared a park in April 1999. The logo shows the mountain Učka with the Vojak tower which serves as a lookout. The flag of the park is green.
Tomislav Šipek, 17 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 17 September 2021

Velebit Nature Park

image by Tomislav Šipek, 18 September 2021

Velebit Nature Park is the largest protected area in Croatia. It stretches along the Velebit mountain massif in the length of 145 kilometers, and covers 2270 square kilometers.
It spreads mostly through Lika-Senj County, and through Zadar County, and to a very small extent through Šibenik-Knin County. It was founded on May 29, 1981. The interesting thing about the Velebit Nature Park is that it has two national parks within its territory: Northern Velebit (Sjeverni Velebit) and Paklenica.
The logo represents a wolf, while the flag is white.
Tomislav Šipek, 18 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 18 September 2021

Vrana Lake Nature Park

Vrana Lake (Vransko jezero) Nature Park includes the largest natural lake with its surroundings in an area of ​​57 square kilometers. It was declared a park in 1999, and is administratively located in Zadar and Šibenik-Knin counties.
The logo is represented by the heron as the most characteristic bird species among the hundreds that nest on the lake.
The flag, for now, I have not yet noticed in use.
Tomislav Šipek, 20 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 20 September 2021

Žumberak - Samobor Highlands Nature Park

image by Tomislav Šipek, 16 September 2021

Žumberak - Samobor Highlands Nature Park (Žumberak - Samoborsko gorje) is located in a hilly area along the border with Slovenia. It is mostly located in Zagreb County, and to a lesser extent in Karlovac County. The park covers 350 square kilometers and was opened on May 28, 1999.
The logo represents the gentle hills of these two mountains, and the flag is white.
Tomislav Šipek, 16 September 2021

Logo

image by Tomislav Šipek, 16 September 2021

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