193VARSTVO NARAVE, Supl. 1 (2011)
LASTOVO ISLANDS NATURE PARK
NARAVNI PARK LASTOVSKO OTOČJE
Korana ZAVADLAV
ABSTRACT
On September 29, 2006, Croatian Parliament proclaimed ˝Lastovo Islands˝ Nature Park a protected 
area, which makes it eleventh Nature Park in Croatia. The Nature Park embraces 44 islands, islets and 
rocks (the biggest among them being Lastovo and Sušac), covering a total land area of 53 km2 and a total 
sea area of 143 km2, with the lighthouses Sušac, Tajan, Glavat and Struga located on its borders. The 
WWF has declared this territory one of the last ten biodiversity treasures of the Mediterranean Sea.
The Lastovo Islands were declared a Nature Park due to their mystic beauty, immense landscape value, 
thick forests and fertile fields rich with ponds, high coastal cliffs, land and sea caves, numerous rare sea 
and land species and habitats.
The article also refers to the activities that this MPA is currently undertaking in order to better conserve 
the biological and cultural heritage of the archipelago.
IZVLEČEK
Dne 29. septembra 2006 je hrvaški parlament razglasil Naravni park Lastovsko otočje zavarovano 
območje. Ta naravni park, ki je enajsti na Hrvaškem, obsega 44 otokov, otočkov in čeri (največja med 
otoki sta Lastovo in Sušac) s skupno kopensko površino 53 km2 in skupno morsko površino 143 km2. Na 
park mejijo svetilniki Sušac, Tajan, Glavat in Struga. Svetovni sklad za varstvo narave (WWF) je razglasil 
to območje eno od zadnjih desetih biodiverzitetnih zakladov Sredozemskega morja.
Lastovsko otočje je bilo razglašeno za naravni park zaradi njegovih skrivnostnih lepot, izjemne krajinske 
vrednosti, gostih gozdov in rodovitnih polj, bogatih z ribniki, visokih obalnih klifov, kopenskih in morskih 
jam ter številnih redkih morskih in kopenskih vrst in habitatov.
V članku so omenjene tudi dejavnosti, ki z namenom, da se bolje zaščiti njegova biološka in kulturna 
dediščina, potekajo v tem morskem zavarovanem območju.
Korana ZAVADLAV
Public institution Lastovo Islands Nature Park, 
Trg Svetog Petra 7,
20289 Ubli, Lastovo, Croatia
info@pp-lastovo.hr