List of protected areas of Nepal

The protected areas of Nepal cover mainly forested land and are located at various altitudes in the Terai, in the foothills of the Himalayas and in the mountains, thus encompassing a multitude of landscapes and preserving a vast biodiversity in the Palearctic and Indomalayan realms. Nepal covers 147181 km2 in the central part of the Himalayas. Altitudes range from 67 m in the south-eastern Terai to 8848 m at Mount Everest within a short horizontal span. This extreme altitudinal gradient has resulted in 11 bio-climatic zones ranging from lower tropical below 500 m to nival above 5000 m in the High Himalayas, encompassing nine terrestrial ecoregions with 36 vegetation types.

Additionally, nine Ramsar sites were declared between 1988 and 2008. Two wildlife reserves were declared as national parks in 2017.

National parks

 * Chitwan National Park – 952.63 km2
 * Sagarmatha National Park – 1148 km2
 * Langtang National Park – 1710 km2
 * Rara National Park – 106 km2
 * Khaptad National Park – 225 km2
 * Shey Phoksundo National Park – 3555 km2
 * Bardiya National Park – 968 km2
 * Makalu Barun National Park – 1500 km2
 * Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park – 159 km2
 * Banke National Park – 550 km2
 * Shuklaphanta National Park – 305 km2
 * Parsa National Park – 637 km2

Wildlife reserves

 * Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve – 175 km2

Conservation areas

 * Annapurna Conservation Area – 7629 km2
 * Kanchenjunga Conservation Area – 2035 km2
 * Manaslu Conservation Area – 1663 km2
 * Blackbuck Conservation Area – 15.95 km2
 * Api Nampa Conservation Area – 1903 km2
 * Gaurishankar Conservation Area – 2179 km2

Hunting Reserve

 * Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve – 1325 km2

Ramsar Sites
The following Ramsar sites were declared between 1988 and 2008:
 * Bishazari Tal – 3200 ha
 * Ghodaghodi Tal – 2563 ha
 * Gokyo Lake Complex – 7770 ha
 * Gosaikunda – 13.8 ha
 * Jagdishpur Reservoir – 225 ha
 * Kosi Tappu Wildlife Reserve – 17500 ha
 * Mai Pokhari – 90 ha
 * Phoksundo Lake – 494 ha
 * Rara Lake – 1583 ha
 * Lake Cluster of Pokhara Valley – 261.1 km2