Press releases

The rating of places every traveler must visit was published by The Telegraph. Alongside with Tallinn, Riga, Saint Petersburg, Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve and other travel destinations, the Belarusian national park ranked 18^th in the list.

Today Belovezhskaya Pushcha is the largest and best remaining fragment of ancient woodland in Europe, the newspaper notes. “There are more than 2,000 types of plants and fungi, more than 200 bird species and mammals long lost elsewhere, such as lynx, beaver, red squirrel, pine marten, wild boar, wildcat, and wolf, as well as the biggest beast of them all – the European bison,” the British tabloid describes the unique natural landmark.

In 1992 the most preserved part of the oldest flora of the national park was named the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Belovezhskaya Pushcha became the first object on the territory of the former Soviet Union to receive this high status. A year later, in 1993, Belovezhskaya Pushcha got the status of a biosphere reserve. In the late 1997 the Council of Europe awarded the European Diploma for Protected Areas to the national park. In 2012 the European Diploma was renewed for five years until 2018.

In 2013 Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park associated with the European PAN Parks Foundation and received the Wilderness Diploma. In 2014 Belovezhskaya Pushcha became a cross-border World Heritage Site collectively known as Bialowieza Forest.