In the last years nature protection also underwent many changes in Slovakia. Now the Act No. 543/2002 on nature and landscape protection crowns it. The national system of protected areas consists of 9 national parks, 14 protected landscape areas and 1 073 small scale protected areas – national natural reserves, natural reserves, national nature monuments, nature monuments and protected distribution ranges. Their total area is 1 135 209 ha, it is 23, 1 % of the area of Slovakia. At present, a complex revaluation of the national system of protected areas is carried out from the complex natural-environmental viewpoints. NATURA 2000 is now the priority of the foundation of a complex European system of protected areas. In the next period in the sphere of care of nature and landscape it will be unavoidable to elaborate the conception of nature protection, to finish the revaluation of the national system of protected areas including their division into zones, to declare the complex European system of protected areas (protected bird areas and areas of European importance), to build the system of research and monitoring of protected species of European and national significance and nonindigenous species and to realize the management plans within the frame of the system of protected areas NATURA 2000, to make more effective the cooperation of the organizations of nature and landscape protection with the owners and users of the plots in protected areas.