MAJELLA NATIONAL PARK

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MAJELLA NATIONAL PARK

• PROTECTED AREAS
• 10 OF TERRITOTIES IS PROTECTED

Map of Italy (Ministero dellAmbiente-Servizio
Conservazione della Natura Maiorano G.
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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)
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Pirone G. (archives of W.W.F. Abruzzo)

• ESTABLISHED ON 1992
• ARE PRESRNT MANY MONTAINS HIGH MORE THEN 2000
  METERS

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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)
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• MANY ENDEMIC SPECIES
• Androsace mathildae
• Malconia orsiniana
• Adonide distorta
• SOME SPECIES ARE PRESENT
• IN BALKAN AREA
• Leotopodium nivale
• Ashodeline liburnica
• Orlaya dancorlaya
• BIRCH (Betula pendula roth), it is a
  biogeographyc relic

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

• Ursus arctos marsicanus
• SIMILAR TO THE BEARS OF BALKANS
• 25 INDIVIDUALS IN M.N.P.
• 90 INDIVIDUALS IN ABRUZZO

Pellegrini M.
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• Canis lupus italicus
• 30 INDIVIDUALS
• THEY LIVE IN SMOLL FAMILY FORMED BY 4-5
  INDIVIDUALS
• COMPETITION WITH WILD DOGS

Boitani G.
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• Rupicapra rupicapra ornata
• DIFFERENT FROM ALPINE CHAMOIS
• REINTRODUCTED ON 1991
• 29 INDIVIDUALS
• 8 YOUNGS AND 21 ADULTS

(archives internatinal Park center)
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BIRDS

• Pernis apivorus
• MANY SPECIES OF BIRDS
• SOME OF THEM ARE VERY SPECIAL LIKE
• Eudromial marinellus
• Aquila crysaetos
• Circaetus gallicus
• Buteo buteo

Pellegrini M.
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AMPHIBIA
Triturus cornifex
Zavalloni D.
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Bombina variegata
Pellegrini M.