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Protected areas in Portugal are classified into five categories: national park, natural park, natural reserve, protected landscape, and natural monument.

National parks
Protected Area that includes one or more ecosystems bearing little man changes. These areas integrate representative natural region and natural humanised landscape samples, geo-morphology sites, flora and fauna species or habitats of ecological, scientific and educational interest.

Natural parks
Area characterized by natural, semi-natural and humanized landscapes of national interest, being an example of harmonious integration of Nature and human activity, and which presents samples of a biome or natural region.

Natural reserves
Its purpose is to protect flora and fauna habitats, with the aim of ensuring the natural conditions needed for the stability or survival of the species, biotic communities or physical aspects of the environment, whenever these require human intervention to guarantee their survival.

Protected landscapes
A natural, semi-natural or humanised area that represents harmonious integration of human activity with Nature with the purpose of maintaining and valuing the natural or semi-natural landscape and its ecological diversity.

Natural monuments
Natural site that, given its singular nature, rarity or ecological, aesthetic, scientific and cultural representability requires conservation.