Protected natural areas of Romania¶

Nationally designated protected areas (scientific reserves, national/natural parks, natural monuments and reserves) with their national code, site type, reporting status, counties, administration type and legal basis. Source: Agenția Națională pentru Protecția Mediului via data.gov.ro.


Endpoint	`GET /v1/environment/protected_areas`
Export	`GET /v1/environment/protected_areas/export?format=csv\\|ndjson`
Dataset id	`protected_areas`
Domain	environment
Rows	1,500
Source	data.gov.ro CKAN package `arii_protejate`

Columns¶

All columns are filterable, sortable, and selectable — see Querying & filtering.

Column	Type	Notes
`site_name`	string	required
`national_code`	string
`site_type`	string
`site_status`	string
`counties`	string
`administration_type`	string
`assignment_year`	integer
`bioregions`	string
`legal_basis`	string
`source_year`	bigint	constant for this source file

Example request¶

curlPythonJavaScript

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" "https://api.canovix.ro/v1/environment/protected_areas?limit=2"

page = client.get("/v1/environment/protected_areas", params={"limit": 2}).json()

const page = await (await fetch(`${BASE}/v1/environment/protected_areas?limit=2`, { headers })).json();

Response:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "site_name": "Zona naturală protejată Scroviștea",
      "national_code": "1.1990",
      "site_type": "Necunoscut",
      "site_status": "Raportat",
      "counties": "IF",
      "administration_type": null,
      "assignment_year": null,
      "bioregions": "Continentala",
      "legal_basis": null
    },
    {
      "site_name": "Insulele Prundu cu Păsări",
      "national_code": "1.2009",
      "site_type": "Rezervaţie ştiinţifică",
      "site_status": "Raportat",
      "counties": "CT",
      "administration_type": "Administrare",
      "assignment_year": 1993,
      "bioregions": "Pontic",
      "legal_basis": "Hotarare de Guvern 1066/2010(Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1066/2010 privind instituirea regimului de arie naturală protejată asupra unor zone din Rezervaţia Biosferei Delta Dunării şi încadrarea acestora în categoria rezervaţiilor ştiinţifice)"
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "total": 1500,
    "count": 2,
    "limit": 2,
    "offset": 0,
    "has_next": true,
    "next_offset": 2
  },
  "meta": {
    "api_version": "v1",
    "dataset": "protected_areas",
    "domain": "environment",
    "source_year": 2025,
    "source": "https://data.gov.ro/dataset/arii_protejate",
    "last_updated": "2026-07-21T15:57:21Z",
    "generated_at": "2026-07-31T08:48:42Z"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "/v1/environment/protected_areas?limit=2",
    "next": "/v1/environment/protected_areas?limit=2&offset=2",
    "prev": null,
    "first": "/v1/environment/protected_areas?limit=2&offset=0",
    "last": "/v1/environment/protected_areas?limit=2&offset=1498",
    "documentation": "/documentation/datasets/protected_areas/"
  }
}

Provenance¶

Latest ingestion (version 1): 1,500 rows imported, 0 quarantined, from arii_protejate.xls (SHA-256 be2563c1d18c…) on 2026-07-21.

Full provenance — checksums, pipeline version, timings — is live at /v1/datasets/{id}.