Natural Park of Mount Baldo
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Natural Park of Mount Baldo
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 Gravel road to Monte Altissimo di Nago, Corna Piana at the bottom left |
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| location | Garda mountains , Trentino , Italy | |
| surface | 46.5 km² | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 49 ' N , 10 ° 57' E | |
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| Sea level | from 220 m to 2078 m | |
| Setup date | 2013 | |
The Parco naturale locale del Monte Baldo is a natural park in the Italian province of Trento . It is located in the Lake Garda Mountains in the northern part of Monte Baldo , embedded between Lake Garda and the Adige Valley .
Geographical location
The park extends over the municipalities of Ala , Avio , Brentonico , Mori and Nago-Torbole . It includes several nature reserves that existed before the park was established and now, with one exception, form a contiguous park area. The park is bordered in the east by the Adige Valley, in the west by Monte Altissimo di Nago , in the southwest by the Bocca di Navene and in the southeast by Monte Vignola . In the north, the Valle del Cameras between Mori and Nago forms the northern boundary of the park. The Manzano protected area is an exclave north of the Valle del Cameras above the two towns of Manzano and Nomesino, on the slopes of Monte Biaena north of Mori. The most important pre-existing protected areas of the park are:
- Bocca D'Ardole - Corno della Paura 1.78 km² ( WDPA -ID 555580423 )
- Lago di Loppio 1.13 km² (WDPA-ID 555528545 )
- Manzano 0.99 km² (WDPA-ID 555528564 )
- Monte Baldo di Brentonico 21.2 km² (WDPA-ID 555528607 )
- Talpina 2.41 km² (WDPA-ID 555528596 )
The park has an area of 46.5 km². The lowest point is on Lago di Loppio at 220 m slm , while the highest point is reached at 2078 m on Monte Altissimo di Nago.
Habitats
The park extends over several altitude levels and thus has accompanied different climate areas and a habitat diversity on. This is crucial for the floral biodiversity in the park, including numerous rare plants on the red list of endangered species , but also endemic plants .
The 24 alpine huts in the park, ten of which have been abandoned, testify to the importance of the cultural landscape and the alpine and pasture farming here. The cultural and natural landscape are closely intertwined in the park. The agriculturally used areas are owned by smallholders and are still mainly cultivated in the old traditional way for their own consumption.
The lower elevations in the park are characterized by sub-Mediterranean mixed deciduous forests, especially coppice forests . These include manna ash , European hop beech and downy oak in dry, sunny places . The common rock pear , the European hackberry and the wig bush are also native to these slow-growing forests . The habitats also include species-rich limestone grasslands with numerous orchid species . These meadows were used for haymaking in the past and are now threatened by tree growth. They can only hold on to stony and sunny locations. Numerous species are also represented on the dry pastures , the survival of which is guaranteed by being used as pasture, even if fertilization by grazing animals has a negative effect on species diversity in some places.
Montane beech forests can be found between 1100 m and 1400 m , even if these are only remnants and have been replaced by pastureland in the past. In the subalpine altitude range there are cripple growth forms and dwarf forms such as mountain pines , rhododendrons , sometimes mixed with spruce , larch and fir . The alpine altitude is characterized by grassland, rocks and scree slopes .
With the Lago di Loppio and the Riserva naturale Seandre at Polsa and Bocca del Creèr , the park also has three wetlands .
The diversity of habitats is also the basis for the species-rich fauna in the park. 69% of the amphibian species native to Trentino , 73% of the reptile species native to the province , 75% of the bird species breeding in Trentino and 55% of the mammal species native to Trentino can be found in the Parco naturale locale del Monte Baldo.
history
The park was created in 2013 after thinking about setting up a park across the provinces in the 1960s and 1970s. The forerunner was the municipality of Brentonico, in whose municipality the first protection zone Bés - Corna Piana was established in 1972 near the Bocca del Creèr below the Monte Altissimo di Nago. In 2008 it was again the municipal administration in Brentonico that networked the protected areas in their municipal area, which formed the core of the future park.
Park management
The park administration is made up of a committee consisting of the mayors of the municipalities in the park and the two presidents of the valley communities Vallagarina and Alto Garda e Ledro as well as the assessor responsible for the nature reserves of the province of Trento . The office of president belongs to the mayor of Brentonico. The body is supported by a territorial forum and a technical committee. The park administration has its seat in the town hall of Brentonico.
literature
- Fondazione Museo Civico Rovereto: Guida al Parco naturale del Monte Baldo. Osiride, Rovereto 2015, ISBN 978-88-7498-232-5 .
Web links
- Parcomontebaldo.tn.it , website of the park (Italian / English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fondazione Museo Civico Rovereto: Guida al Parco naturale del Monte Baldo. Pp. 41-47
- ↑ Fondazione Museo Civico Rovereto: Guida al Parco naturale del Monte Baldo. Pp. 65-69
- ↑ Fondazione Museo Civico Rovereto: Guida al Parco naturale del Monte Baldo. P. 61
- ↑ Flora and Fauna in the Park (Italian), accessed on February 24, 2018
- ↑ Fondazione Museo Civico Rovereto: Guida al Parco naturale del Monte Baldo. Pp. 49-59
- ↑ Park administration and committees (Italian), accessed on February 24, 2018