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Monte Perdido
France/Spain
Europe
Contact: Dr. Louis Deharveng, Natural History Museum Paris, France

In 2006 presented by: Dr. Louis Deharveng, Natural History Museum Paris, France.

Monte Perdido is a French-Spanish world heritage site and nature reserve (France: Parc National des Pyrénées, Spain: Ordesa y Monte Perdido) in the Pyrenee mountains. Geologically, the area underwent partial glaciation of which some relicts are still reflected in modern-day flora & fauna. The area consists primarily of limestone rocks.
Whereas vertebrate surveys have a very complete overview of the occurring fauna (including recently described endemic species), the flora and invertebrate fauna is only poorly covered by scientific biodiversity inventories.

Ordesa y Monte Perdido (Spain) National Park: http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/sitedetails.cfm?siteid=893&level=nat
Also : Birds Directive, European Diploma Type 'A'.
42.647, 0.002

Parc National des Pyrénées (France): http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/sitedetails.cfm?siteid=662&level=nat
Also: European Diploma Type 'A', World Heritage Convention.
42.811, -0.210
Click to download DEHARVENG_2006_monte_perdido.pdf


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