Lausitzer Gebirge
The Czech part of the Lusatian Mountains have been a nature reserve since 1976, covering an area of . Administratively it is known as the Lusatian Mountains Protected Landscape Area ("CHKO Lužické hory") and has the status of CHKO, a so-called Landscape park. The smaller German part of the mountains also became a nature protection in 2008, when the Zittau Mountain Nature Park was established, with the effect that the entire Lusatian Mountains is now under some form of nature protection.