The central concern of a National Park is the preservation of a natural landscape where use is no longer made of the land by man and where the dynamics of nature are allowed to take over again. The National Park around the Neusiedler See Lake Area consists of the southern part of Lake Neusiedler and the surrounding marshlands, covering about 4,000 hectares. The areas accessible to people on existing pathways are in the five conservation areas. These are characterised by small, shallow saltwater pools with reed beds, and by wide meadows. The appearance of the meadows and the wide variety of flora and fauna in them are due to the fact that for centuries they were only used for grazing and hay-making. 

Water, rippling reed beds, sweeping meadows with flat saltwater pools - this is the National Park known as the Neusiedler See Lakes Area. The Pannonian climate with is long growing period and its position between the Alps and the Puszta determine the type of plant life: mosaics of dry meadow surrounded by wetlands and salt marshes. The National Park is full of Wildlife, mainly birds: meadow sandpipers, geese, herons, storks, curlews and birds of prey. The mammal most popular amongst visitors is the funny little suslik, or ground squirrel, that lives in the short grass of the pastures. 

The main task of a national park is to safeguard the natural processes of nature. However, in the conservation areas, people should be allowed to make use of the land for educational and leisure purposes. People who live in the region, holiday-makers or people on day trips: all of them are asked to treat nature‘s creatures with consideration in return for what has now become a rare natural experience. Guiding visitors and encouraging them to behave properly can help here - conservation achieved by locking people out is a contradiction in terms. Nature needs a home, but man should not lose his place in nature.