page_title: Scandinavian and Russian taiga
section_title: Protected areas
hierarchical_section_title: Scandinavian and Russian taiga / Protected areas
caption_attribution_description: Ranelva seen from Illhøllia, south of Nevermoen in Dunderlandsdalen. Rana municipality, county of Nordland, Norway, Photo 6 August, 2007 with a Nikon Coolpix 5600 5,1 Megapixel camera.
context_page_description: The Scandinavian taiga is an ecoregion within the taiga and boreal forests biome as defined by the WWF classification. It is situated in Northern Europe between tundra in the north and temperate mixed forests in the south and occupies about 2,156,900 km² in Norway, Sweden, Finland and the northern part of European Russia, being the largest ecoregion in Europe. In Sweden the taiga is primarily associated with the Norrland terrain.
context_section_description: The following is a partial list of protected areas lying within the Scandinavian and Russian taiga:
  Björnlandet National Park, Sweden
  Femundsmarka National Park, Norway
  Helvetinjärvi National Park, Finland
  Isojärvi National Park, Finland
  Koli National Park, Finland
  Liesjärvi National Park, Finland
  Muddus National Park, Sweden
  Paanajärvi National Park, Russia
  Skuleskogen National Park, Sweden
  Vodlozersky National Park, Russia
caption: There are many rivers and lakes in the Taiga. Norwegian closed-canopy boreal forest at the Arctic Circle in Rana.
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