Landscape Park Strunjan (park) is an area with a pronounced high-quality and long-term interaction of human and nature, with a high ecological biodiversity and landscape value. Strunjan Park covers a area of Strunjan Peninsula, protected by the municipal since 1990 and on the state level since 2004.
In park we have 11 natural values. Entire park is fully ecologically important area and half of the park under Nature 2000 (SCI) protection for 7 animal spieces and 7 habitat types.
A large part of the park represents the sea. Most endangered are nature reserves Nature reservate Strunjan and Nature Reservate Strunjan Stjuža (Saltpans).
Landscape Park Strunjan (park) is an area with a pronounced high-quality and long-term interaction of human and nature, with a high ecological biodiversity and landscape value. Strunjan Park covers a area of Strunjan Peninsula, protected by the municipal since 1990 and on the state level since 2004.
In 2009 Slovenian government established institution in order to protect the natural values and to preserve biodiversity and landscape diversity. For the Strunjan Peninsula area a specific act was initiated which regulates the legal status and organizational issues related to its operations. Public institution of park performs protection, technical control and management tasks.
Park represents:
- The highest flish cliff in Adriatic, 80 meters high.
- The only one marine lagoon in Slovenia called Stjuža.
- One of the most preserved cultural landscape on Slovenian coast.
- Norden most salt pans in Mediterranean where the salt is still produced on traditional way for 700 years.
In park we have 11 natural values. Entire park is fully ecologically important area and half of the park under Nature 2000 (SCI) protection for 7 animal spieces and 7 habitat types.
Landscape Park Strunjan is the only broad protected area in Slovenia that encompasses the sea and boasts the longest section of natural coastline in the Gulf of Trieste. The size of the marine protected area (MPA) is 124, 4 ha and covers 29 % of the entire area of the Park.
Strunjan Nature Reserve represents one of the most diverse marine ecosystems in the Slovenian sea and at the same time it is an important source of fishing activities.
The middle part of the marine protected area (approximately 25 % of the MPA) is entirely dedicated to nature itself, where all the human activities are prohibited, such as fishing, scuba diving, anchoring,cruising with motor-driven vessels. In the other part of the MPA artisanal fishing is carried out 4 months during the year (2 months in autumn and 2 months in spring).