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Ovre Pasvik National Park

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Ovre Pasvik National Park lies in the Pasvik valley of Sor-Varanger Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway, established on February 6, 1970 and expanded on August 29, 2003 from an original 66 square kilometers to about 119 square kilometers. Its Siberian-style taiga of old-growth Scots pine, shallow lakes and boglands, drained by the lakes Ellenvatnet and Odevatnet into the Pasvikelva river, holds around 190 flowering plant species typical of Siberian taiga along with denning brown bears, moose and birds rare elsewhere in Norway such as Siberian jays and pine grosbeaks; it forms part of the cross-border Pasvik-Inari Trilateral Park shared with Finland and Russia. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Governance Type
Governance by Government 1
Realm
Terrestrial 1
Governing Body
Governing Body (category)
Norwegian national park board (nasjonalparkstyre) 1
Designation Category
National Park 1
Governing Body
Øvre Pasvik nasjonalparkstyre 1
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1. Ovre Pasvik National Park (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    Øvre Pasvik National Park (Norwegian: Øvre Pasvik nasjonalpark, Northern Sami: Báhčaveaji álbmotmeahcci, Skolt Sami: Paččjooǥǥ meermeäʹcc) is located in the southeastern part of the Pasvikdalen valley in southern Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
  • Lead
    Øvre Pasvik National Park (Norwegian: Øvre Pasvik nasjonalpark, Northern Sami: Báhčaveaji álbmotmeahcci, Skolt Sami: Paččjooǥǥ meermeäʹcc) is located in the southeastern part of the Pasvikdalen valley in southern Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
  • Article text
    The park is managed by the National Park Board for Øvre Pasvik, a local politically nominated body which has the management responsibility for the park, along with the landscape protection area.
  • Introduction
    Ovre Pasvik National Park lies in the Pasvik valley of Sor-Varanger Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway, established on February 6, 1970 and expanded on August 29, 2003 from an original 66 square kilometers to about 119 square kilometers.
  • Wikipedia infobox, governing_body field
    Øvre Pasvik nasjonalparkstyre
  • Wikipedia infobox, governance-type government
    Øvre Pasvik nasjonalparkstyre
  • Part Of: Norway, Lead paragraph
    Pasvikdalen valley in southern Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
  • On Continent: Europe
    Øvre Pasvik National Park (Norwegian: Øvre Pasvik nasjonalpark, Northern Sami: Báhčaveaji álbmotmeahcci, Skolt Sami: Paččjooǥǥ meermeäʹcc) is located in the southeastern part of the Pasvikdalen valley in southern Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
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