The global network of BRs currently includes 759 model regions in 136 countries (including 25 transboundary sites), four of them in Austria.
There are four model regions in Austria:
Biosphere reserve Großes Walsertal
in Vorarlberg
19.200 ha
Year of founding: 2000
Biosphere reserve Wienerwald
in Vienna and Lower Austria
105.004 ha
Year of founding: 2005
Biosphere reserve Salzburger Lungau and Kärntner Nockberge
in Salzburg and Carinthia
148.914 ha
Year of founding: 2012
Biosphären reserve Unteres Murtal
in Styria
13.177 ha
Year of founding 2019
