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Białowieża National Park (Białowieski Park Narodowy) is a National Park in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, traversed by the Narew River. The total area of the Park is 73.5 km2, of which only 20.57 km² is state-owned. Narew National Park was created in 1996.

The park covers the Upper Narew Valley, a swampy area between the towns of Suraz and Rzedziany. Around 90% of Park’s area are either swamps or waters with the Narew as the main river but also numerous smaller rivers, such as Liza, Szeroka Struga, Awissa, Kurówka, Kowalówka, Turośnianka and Czaplinianka.

The Park’s landscape is predominantly made up by many varieties of rushes, and there are also meadows and forests. The Narew Valley is a haven for birds - there are 179 species of them, including those unique for the area. Mammals are represented by around 40 species, among them some elk and otter as well as numerous beavers - around 260 of them. The Park’s waters are full of fish - 22 species - as well as amphibians. The Park is a wetland site protected under the Ramsar convention.

Cultural attractions of the Park are mostly represented by buildings such as numerous traditional village huts, ancient crosses by the roads and windmills. One of the Park’s attractions is a private archaeological museum, owned by Władysław Litwinczuk. The Park also includes an antique manor house at Kurów.

The Park has its headquarters in the village of Kurowo. Its buffer zone includes a less strictly protected area called Narew Landscape Park.

Reserves
There are currently ten such reserves in Poland, including trans-boundary reserves shared between Poland and neighboring countries.

The reserve is located on the border with Slovakia in the Western Beskidy Mountains. Babia Góra is the second highest massif (1725 m) in Poland and forms part of the watershed boundary between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea basins. There are four environments that occur as the altitude increases. The forest belt is divided into a lower belt (up to 1150 m), comprised of forests of European Beech, Silver Fir and Carpathian Spruce , and the upper belt (up to 1390 m) comprised of Carpathian Spruce forest. Above the forest is the subalpine belt (up to 1650 m) with dwarf Mountain pine and low-growth European blueberry. At the highest slopes is the alpine grassland belt (up to 1725 m) comprised of lichen-covered siliceous bedrock with tussock-based grasses like and.
 * (Reserve POL 01) Babia Góra, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, 11829 ha, designated 1976, extended in 2001

The reserve, in northeastern Poland, lies adjacent to the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Biosphere Reserve in Belarus. The forest complex, the last and largest remaining mixed deciduous primeval forest on the North European Plain, is situated in the transition between the Hemiboreal and continental climate areas. The forest is composed of a mosaic of diverse communities, principally composed of Grey Willow, European hornbeam , Arctic Dwarf Birch English oak , Small-leaved lime , Scots pine , Norway spruce , which reaches its southern limits in the northern hemisphere here, and Sessile Oak , which reaches its northeastern limit here.
 * (Reserve POL 02) Białowieża Forest, Podlaskie Voivodeship, 10502 ha, designated 1976

The reserve is a glacial lake typical of those located in the Masurian Lake District with an area of 6.8 km2, and a maximum depth of 3 m. The lake is connected with nearby Sniardwy Lake by a channel. The site is a breeding ground for water birds such as Grebe, Water Rail, Moorhen, Grey Heron , Bearded Reedling , White-tailed Eagle , Osprey , rust-coloured Kite, Cormorant and Black Tern. The lake has been a protected location since 1937 as a habitat of the Mute Swan, every year there are a dozen to tens of dozen of nesting pairs, and during Moulting they arrive in numbers reaching up to 2,000 birds.
 * (Reserve POL 03) Łuknajno Lake, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 1410 ha, designated 1976

The reserve consists of set of dunes, brackish lakes, bogs, and wetland forests on the southern Baltic Sea coast between Leba and Rowy, Poland. The coastal aeolian processes have produced some of the most extensive and active mobile sand dunes, which can reach 30 m high, on the Baltic Sea. Coastal erosion and other geological processes lead to the creation of sand-bars, forming brackish lakes and bogs. The area consists of a series of vegetation zones going from the sand communities of the coastline towards the forests of the mainland. The forest includes Beech, Birch , Alder , Pine and Oak. It is an important way station for migrating waderbirds and waterbirds such as geese, ducks and swans. The White-tailed Eagle and other birds nest at the site.
 * (Reserve POL 04) Słowiński, Pomeranian Voivodeship, 20790 ha, designated 1976

The reserve is located in the Bieszczady Mountains on the border with Slovakia and Ukraine. There are four distinct altitude-dependant vegetation ecosystems in the mountains starting with Beech forest, followed by mixed forests of Beech and Silver Fir , forested areas of Green alder , and finally a belt of treeless ‘poloniny’, a subalpine meadows dominated by grasses. Over 100 species of birds live in the area such as the Black stork and the Golden eagle.
 * (Reserve POL-SLO-UKR 01) East Carpathian, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, 113846 ha in Poland, designated 1992 and extended 1998, Joint with Slovakia and Ukraine

The reserve is located on the North European Plain, north-east of Warsaw, parallel to the Vistula River and is characterized by a high diversity of lowland habitats with dune belts separated by swamp areas and a mixture of forest types. The forests are principally composed of a mixture of Grey Willow, European hornbeam , Arctic Dwarf Birch English oak , Small-leaved lime  and Scots pine.
 * (Reserve POL 05) Kampinos Forest, Masovian Voivodeship, 76232 ha, designated 2000

The reserve is part of the Western Sudetes mountains stretching from south-central Poland along the northern border of the Czech Republic to eastern Germany. The mountains are located at the watershed dividing the Baltic Sea and North Sea basins. The area is known for its high biodiversity in four altitudinal vegetation belts, from submontane to alpine. The river valleys and lower layers form the sub-montane zone comprised of forests of European Beech, Silver Fir and Carpathian Spruce. The higher parts form the montane vegetation zone characterized by forested areas of Carpathian Spruce. Above 1250 to 1350 m is the subalpine zone, which is marked by dwarf Mountain pine, mat-grass meadows and subarctic highmoors. There are three subalpine zone}subapline bogs that support an extensive algal community important for migratory birds and raptors. The alpine vegetation zone, is characterized by large rocky deserts with herbaceous perennials such as and.
 * (Reserve CZE-POL 01) Karkonosze, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, 5575 ha in Poland, designated 1992, Joint with Slovakia

The reserve covers areas on each side of the border between Poland and Slovakia. There area contains a number of natural features such as a dwarf pine belt, alpine meadows, lakes and rocky peaks. The area consists of temperate broadleaf forests or woodlands comprised of mixed Beech forest with Fir  and Sycamore. Higher up in the mountains this transitions to forests of Silver Fir and Carpathian Spruce  until the timber line (1500 to 1550 m). Above the forest is the subalpine zone (1550 to 1850 m) with dwarf Mountain pine, Sorbus aucuparia and Betula carpatica. The alpine zone consists of grasses and low-growth herbaceous groundcover.
 * (Reserve POL-SLO 01) Tatra Mountains, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, 17906 ha in Poland, designated 1992, Joint with Slovakia

The reserve comprises a vast open lowland landscape with a mosaic of swamps, moors, lakes, rivers and forests located between the basins of the Bug and Wieprz rivers. The site is part of the European Ecological Corridor of the Bug River. The location supports bird species including raptors such as Lesser Spotted Eagle, Hen Harrier and Montagu's Harrier  and birds such as Aquatic warbler , Marsh Sandpiper  and Eurasian Cranes. The area is considered to be an important crossingpoint for migratory birds. The north-south flyways and east-west flyways of birds meet in the region. The areas consists of boreal Scots pine forests, Black Alder  wetland forests, meadows and peatbog (high moors, transitional moors and low moors) ecosystems.
 * West Polesie, Lublin Voivodeship, 139917 ha in Poland, designated 2002 and extended 2012, Joint with Belarus and Ukraine

The reserve covers one of the largest forests in Poland, comprised mainly of Scots pine. The landforms of the area were sculpted by a glacier that retreated at the end of the last glacial age creating characteristically-long ribbon lakes. Additionally there are large clusters of inland sand dunes. There are extensive areas of peat bogs formed as a result of the overgrowing of the shallower lakes. A number of species of birds live in the area such as the Black stork, Black Grouse , Wood Grouse and Peregrine Falcon.
 * (Reserve POL 07) Tuchola Forest, Pomeranian Voivodeship, 319500 ha, designated 2010