Since 1913, the VNP has owned 3,500 hectares of property in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Austria; in 2016, these areas were sold to the Salzburg National Park Fund.
Other areas owned by the foundation are in Brandenburg and in the Riensheide near Neuenkirchen. In the Lueneburg Heath nature reserve, the VNP manages approximately 9,000 hectares.