Abstract
Abstract Libya has paid a great interest in the conservation of biodiversity and natural resources, as real wealth, source of food, medicine, and source of energy. This country has a large area with multiple patterns of different landscapes, environments, and ecosystems. Therefore, many legislation and regulations been issued aimed to protect the natural ecosystems against different human activities that cause damages and negative impacts. Moreover, organize grazing and hunting in order to determine the proper investment of natural resources without causing any damage to their balance. Efforts have been made to follow up the countries that have good experiments in the field of wildlife protection. Several protected areas and national parks have been established as an important step for the conservation of the biodiversity. The first protected area is been the Al-Kouf National Park (1978) while today the number of protected areas reaches to 13 sites that As a whole made up about 18% of the country’s total area. Recently, in 2011, two sites have been declared as marine protected areas (MPA), Farwa Lagoon at the west and Ain Al-Ghazalah at the eastern part of Libya.