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Mizhrichynskyi Regional Landscape Park (Ukrainian: Міжрічинський регіональний ландшафтний парк) is the biggest regional landscape park in Ukraine. It was founded in 2002 on the territory of Otrokhy in the Kozelets Raion of the Chernihiv Oblast. It is located between two large rivers – Dnipro and Desna, which is why it has the name means "between rivers" in Ukrainian. Area of Mizhrichynskiy landscape park is more than 1,000 square kilometers. Its territory is situated on the south-east of Chernihiv region. The eastern boundary of the park is on the Desna River, western and southern coincides with the Chernihiv region boundary. Prevailing landscape is pine wood. There are many swamps, bogs and lakes.
The big territory with nature conditions provides existence of many animals. There are many big mammals in Mizhrichynskiy RLP. These are moose, wolf, deer, roe deer, wild boar and others. Ornithofauna consist of 241 bird species, among them 145 breeding species. White-tailed eagle, short-toed eagle, lesser spotted eagle, black kite, black stork, crane, black woodpecker, white-backed woodpecker and a lot of other rare birds breed here. In general there are 65 rare plant species and 74 rare animal species in Mizhrichynskiy regional landscape park. On the territory of RLP there two Important Bird Areas.