The Danube Delta is situated in the borderland of Romania and the Ukraine, a tiny part extending into Moldova. Eighty per cent of its vast area of more than 5,000 square kilometres is situated in Romania. The region is a nature paradise in the truest sense of the term, and has no equal worldwide:

Forming part of the southern foothills of the limestone Carpathians, this Karst landscape is a typical regional feature and forms a veritable open-air museum of karst formations.

The Landscape of the Year Senegal/The Gambia is the first Landscape of the Year on the African continent and thus assumes a special position. As a pilot project of the Naturefriends movement, it aims to illustrate how international solidarity can be put into practice and thus be sustainably established.

The Gömör-Torna / Gemer-Turňa Karst area is one of the largest Karst regions in Central Europe, boasting more than 1,000 caves, which have been designated a UNESCO World Natural Heritage.

Since 1989, Naturefriends International has designated 11 Landscapes of the Year – irrespective of their diverse topographies, which range from high and low mountain ranges, via river landscapes, lakes and estuaries to wooded areas and vast planes, all of them are border-crossing.

Gömör-Torna is the historical designation of a karst region that has almost fallen into oblivion. It covers approximately 600 km2 and forms part of the foothills of the Limestone Carpathians in the border area of northern Hungary and southern Slovakia. It strikes the eye with its varied landscape of wooded hills, valleys, meadows and fields.

Experiencing nature between river and rea. The village of Sfântu Gheorghe is a small fishing and touristic village, situated in the south-east of Romania at the end of the oldest branch of the Danube River. Ten minutes before your boat reaches the shore, you can see the Black Sea opening its gates to the Danube River. The place has a unique wildlife that can be discovered, following a 6 km trail along the river and the seaside.