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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)
Pirone G. (archives of W.W.F. Abruzzo)
•ESTABLISHED ON 1992
•ARE PRESRNT MANY MONTAINS HIGH MORE THEN 2000 METERS
MUGHETA
Pirone G. (archives of W.W.F. Abruzzo)
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Pinus mugo pomilio
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It represents a phytogeographycal
testimony to a Nothern climate and
environement that exist as aci-ages relic
in the Appennine
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It forms a perfect link between the limit of
beech woods at 1800 meters an the upper
grass-land
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It offers shelter and opportunities to many
species of this extrene environmental:
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Prunella modularis
Loxia curvirostra
Acantis cannabina
Phyrrhula pyrrhula
Troglodytes troglodytes
Pirone G. (archives of W.W.F. Abruzzo)
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MANY ENDEMIC SPECIES
1.
2.
3.
Androsace mathildae
Malconia orsiniana
Adonide distorta
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SOME SPECIES ARE PRESENT
IN BALKAN AREA
1.
2.
3.
Leotopodium nivale
Ashodeline liburnica
Orlaya dancorlaya
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BIRCH (Betula pendula
roth), it is a biogeographyc
relic
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
Pellegrini M.
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Pernis apivorus
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MANY SPECIES OF BIRDS
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SOME OF THEM ARE
VERY SPECIAL LIKE:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Eudromial marinellus
Aquila crysaetos
Circaetus gallicus
Buteo buteo
AMPHIBIA
Triturus cornifex
Zavalloni D.
Bombina variegata
Pellegrini M.