1. MAJELLA NATIONAL PARK  PROTECTED AREAS  10% OF TERRITOTIES IS PROTECTED Map of Italy (Ministero dell’Ambiente-Servizio Conservazione della Natura Maiorano G.

2. 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)

3. ESTABLISHED ON 1992 ARE PRESRNT MANY MONTAINS HIGH MORE THEN 2000 METERS Pirone G. (archives of W.W.F. Abruzzo)

4. 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)

5. MANY ENDEMIC SPECIES 1.Androsace mathildae 2.Malconia orsiniana 3.Adonide distorta SOME SPECIES ARE PRESENT IN BALKAN AREA 1.Leotopodium nivale 2.Ashodeline liburnica 3.Orlaya dancorlaya BIRCH (Betula pendula roth), it is a biogeographyc relic Pirone G. (archives of W.W.F. Abruzzo)

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

7. Canis lupus italicus 30 INDIVIDUALS THEY LIVE IN SMOLL FAMILY FORMED BY 4-5 INDIVIDUALS COMPETITION WITH WILD DOGS Boitani G.

8. Rupicapra rupicapra ornata DIFFERENT FROM ALPINE CHAMOIS REINTRODUCTED ON 1991 29 INDIVIDUALS 8 YOUNGS AND 21 ADULTS (archives internatinal Park center)

9. BIRDS Pernis apivorus MANY SPECIES OF BIRDS SOME OF THEM ARE VERY SPECIAL LIKE: 1.Eudromial marinellus 2.Aquila crysaetos 3.Circaetus gallicus 4.Buteo buteo Pellegrini M.

10. AMPHIBIA Triturus cornifex Zavalloni D.

11. Bombina variegata Pellegrini M.