Durmitor national park is an amazing place in the North of Montenegro, covering 131 square miles (339 square kilometers), just across the border from Southern Croatia. It includes the Durmitor Massif from where it takes its name, and 3 canyons. The majority of the park is wooded, and is home to 163 different bird species and a wide range of newts, frogs, and lizards. Larger animals include wolves, wild boars, brown bears, chamois, and eagles.

The Danube delta is the second largest in Europe, (after the Volga) but it is the best preserved. 4178 square km which is 1613 square miles. Wolves are slowly returning to the delta, with the help of humans. While not obvious, wolves are likely to reduce local predation, as their presence will reduce the population of golden jackals, which have been damaging herbivore populations.

Lake Balaton is a long and thin lake running east west, close to the west edge of Hungary. The area around this lake is surprisingly wild.

There is a wide range of birds, including bee-eaters and various herons and egrets including a black stork, but perhaps more exciting, European wild cats live in the area around the lake. There is also a healthy population of Otters

This park is 75,000 hectares (289 square miles) which is not vast, but as with many parts of Europe, an protected area often allows animals a respite, and therefore can have a surprisingly high level of increasing populations, far out-stripping their often small size. Pelicans, wild horses, wolves, vultures, wild cats, deer, foxes, ferrets, white-tailed eagles, summer geese, great egrets, grey herons, cranes or black and white storks can all be seen, though animals like wolves are just making a comeback, so consider yourself very lucky if you spot one.