Shebenik-Jablanica National Park

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Parku Kombëtar Shebenik-Jabllanicë
View of the Jablanica mountain range
View of the Jablanica mountain range
Shebenik-Jablanica National Park (Albania)
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Coordinates: 41 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 20 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E
Location: Elbasan Qark , Albania
Next city: Librazhd , Përrenjas
Surface: 339 km²
Founding: 2008
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The national park with the Shebenik seen from Gur i Zi on the Albanian-North Macedonian border

The National Park Shebenik-Jablanica ( Albanian  Parku Kombëtar Shebenik-Jabllanicë ) is a national park in Eastern Albania . Its area is over 339 square kilometers. It includes the Jablanica and Shebenik mountain ranges on the North Macedonian border north of Lake Ohrid .

history

The national park was only established in 2008, making it one of the youngest national parks in Albania. Together with a planned national park on the North Macedonian side, a 500 square kilometer protected area could be created.

2129.45 hectares of the national park in the upper Bushtrica valley near Rrajca -Skënderbej were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2017 . A large primeval beech forest has been preserved here, which, together with 66 other forests in various countries, forms the World Heritage Site Old Beech Forests and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathian Mountains and other regions of Europe . The world heritage extends from a height of around 1200 meters to over 2000 meters. A buffer zone of 2569.75 hectares surrounds the protected area.

Flora and fauna

Flock of sheep on an alp in the Shebenik-Jablanica National Park

The protected border area is part of the European Green Belt , which serves as a retreat for rare animal and plant species. These include bears and wolves, but above all the endangered Balkan lynx Lynx lynx balcanicus , a subspecies of the Eurasian lynx living in North Macedonia and Albania , of which there are only 30 to 50 specimens left. In summer 2012 a Balkan lynx was photographed in the park for the first time. Deer and chamois were almost completely exterminated on the Albanian side by poachers as a result of the lottery uprising.

Due to the remoteness, significant forests have been preserved in some areas.

Web links

Commons : Shebenik-Jabllanica National Park  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vendim No. 640 (May 21, 2008): Për shpalljen “Park kombëtar” të ekosistemit natyror shebenik-Jabllanicë. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 10, 2014 ; accessed on January 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mjedisi.gov.al
  2. ↑ European Green Belt Newsletter 2/2008. (PDF) Archived from the original on August 14, 2010 ; accessed on June 7, 2009 .
  3. ↑ a b Hanns Kirchmeir, Anna Kovarovics (Ed.): “Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe” as extension to the existing Natural World Heritage Site “Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany” (1133bis) . Nomination Dossier to the UNESCO for the Inscription on the World Heritage List. Klagenfurt / Vienna January 2016, p. 22 ( unesco.org [PDF; accessed on August 8, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Lynx lynx ssp. balcanicus in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015.4. Posted by: D. Melovski, U. Breitenmoser, M. von Arx, C. Breitenmoser-Würsten, T. Lanz, 2015. Accessed November 20, 2015.
  5. ↑ Balkan Lynx - He only survived in Macedonia. Retrieved June 7, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Balkan Lynx presence proved in Shebenik-Jabllanica National Park. (PDF; 46 kB) In: Association for Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania. August 14, 2012, accessed on August 16, 2012 .