MAJELLA NATIONAL PARK

PROTECTED AREAS

10% OF TERRITOTIES IS PROTECTED

Map of Italy (Ministero dell’Ambiente-Servizio Conservazione della Natura Maiorano G.

SOUTH EUROPEAN PARK

• 3 NATIONAL PARK

•1 REGIONAL PARK

•37 OASIS AND RESERVES

•33% OF TERRITORY IS PROTECTED

•SPECIAL POSITION

Map of Abruzzo (Provincia di Pescara-Assessorato ai Parchi e Turismo)

•ESTABLISHED ON 1992

•ARE PRESRNT MANY MONTAINS HIGH MORE THEN 2000 METERS

Pirone G. (archives of W.W.F. Abruzzo)

MUGHETA

• Pinus mugo pomilio

• It represents a phytogeographycal testimony to a Nothern climate and environement that exist as aci-ages relic in the Appennine

• It forms a perfect link between the limit of beech woods at 1800 meters an the upper grass-land

• It offers shelter and opportunities to many species of this extrene environmental:

• Prunella modularis• Loxia curvirostra• Acantis cannabina• Phyrrhula pyrrhula• Troglodytes troglodytes

Pirone G. (archives of W.W.F. Abruzzo)

• MANY ENDEMIC SPECIES

1. Androsace mathildae2. Malconia orsiniana3. Adonide distorta

• SOME SPECIES ARE PRESENT IN BALKAN AREA

1. Leotopodium nivale2. Ashodeline liburnica3. Orlaya dancorlaya

• BIRCH (Betula pendula roth), it is a biogeographyc relic

Pirone G. (archives of W.W.F. Abruzzo)

MAMMALS

•Ursus arctos marsicanus

•SIMILAR TO THE BEARS OF BALKANS

•25 INDIVIDUALS IN M.N.P.

•90 INDIVIDUALS IN ABRUZZO

Pellegrini M.

• Canis lupus italicus

•30 INDIVIDUALS

•THEY LIVE IN SMOLL FAMILY FORMED BY 4-5 INDIVIDUALS

•COMPETITION WITH WILD DOGS

Boitani G.

•Rupicapra rupicapra ornata

•DIFFERENT FROM ALPINE CHAMOIS

•REINTRODUCTED ON 1991

•29 INDIVIDUALS

•8 YOUNGS AND 21 ADULTS

(archives internatinal Park center)

BIRDS

• Pernis apivorus

• MANY SPECIES OF BIRDS

• SOME OF THEM ARE VERY SPECIAL LIKE:

1. Eudromial marinellus2. Aquila crysaetos3. Circaetus gallicus4. Buteo buteo

Pellegrini M.

AMPHIBIA

Triturus cornifex

Zavalloni D.

Bombina variegata

Pellegrini M.