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Lagorai

Special Protection Area - SPA

The Lagorai mountain chain, located in the Central Alps, represents one of the least anthropised areas in the entire Alpine arc.
The perimeter of the SPA includes a vast area between Val di Fiemme and Valsugana, the Paneveggio-Pale di San Martino Nature Park (subdivided into 6 SCIs) and 7 other SCIs: Valle del Vanoi, Val Campelle, Brocon Pass, Val Cadino, Valfloriana wetland, Lago delle Buse and Catena di Lagorai.
The area is particularly varied both from a purely geological and geographical-environmental point of view.
The most relevant part of the SPA consists of the Lagorai porphyry massif, composed of a succession of ridges and peaks, with vast rocky environments and high-altitude grasslands.
The easternmost part includes the limestone-marly reliefs of the Costazza-Castellazzo and the dolomite complex of the Pale di San Martino, characterised by an elevated glaciocarpic plateau that precipitates with spires and precipices towards the Valle del Cismon and Val Canali.
Also included in the SPA are the porphyry chain between the Valles Pass and the Lusia Pass, the high basin of the Travignolo torrent and, to the south, the granite complex of the Cima d'Asta.
Priority habitat 6210 (wonderful orchid blooms) present only in traces.

Description

Highly natural environment.
It includes forests, mountain grasslands, high-altitude rocky environments and various types of wetlands.
There are notable floristic rarities and endemisms in addition to the presence of vegetation aspects of exceptional value (e.g. the community of glacial springs on dolomitic detritus reaches here the extreme south-eastern limit of its alpine range).
As many as 35 habitats of Community interest have been surveyed in this area (out of 57 found in the entire province).
In the Vanoi and Val Campelle there are silver fir forests, which are of considerable interest, as the species is in decline in the Alps.
The site is of considerable interest for the presence and reproduction of endangered animal species, important glacial relicts, exclusive and/or typical of the Alps.
Among the fauna species present are the Chamois, Roe Deer, Marmot, Variable Hare, Fox, Marten, Ermine.
Among the birds, the wealth of galliformes is remarkable: Capercaillie, Gallo Forcello, Ptarmigan, Francolin, Rock Partridge. The golden eagle is nesting, the lammergeyer incidental. The presence of diurnal and nocturnal birds of prey is good.
Note the presence of species at the western edge of their range such as the three-toed woodpecker and the black salamander.
Presence of Annex II invertebrates, indicators of woods with a high degree of naturalness.

Address

Municipalities concerned

Bieno
Canal San Bovo
Castel Ivano
Castello-Molina di Fiemme
Castello Tesino
Cavalese
Cinte Tesino
Imer
Mezzano
Moena
Palù del Fersina
Pieve Tesino
Predazzo
Primiero San Martino di Castrozza
Sagron Mis
Samone
Samone
Scurelle
Telve
Telve di Sopra
Tesero
Valfloriana
Ziano di Fiemme

Area coordinates

Surface area

Unità di misuraValore
hectares 46191

Informazioni di dettaglio

Identification code

IT3120160

Reference database

Natura2000

Protected area classification

Special Protection Area – SPA

Technical Information

Additional information

See the file of the protected area on Trentino Living Atlas, with details of the species found and the protection measures taken from the official conservation measures

Go to the official EU "Natura 2000 viewer" website

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