Natural parks
Trentino's environmental excellence and biodiversity are protected by three parks: the two provincial nature parks Adamello Brenta e Paneveggio Pale di San Martino and the Stelvio National Parka portion of which falls within provincial territory.
They are protagonists of conservation projects (e.g. of ibex and bears, but also of many other animal and plant species), engaged in scientific research and interpreters of a new way of doing environmental education. Forerunners of sustainable mobility, they have for years offered shuttle bus services to reach the most beautiful but fragile places in their territories. Recently, the offer has expanded to include other means such as electric bicycles. The parks are also strongly committed to local sustainable development, with a focus on promoting tourist activities that respect the environment and the culture of local communities.
The three parks of Trentino
Stelvio National Park
The Stelvio National Park, with its 130,734 hectares, is one of the largest national parks in Italy.
Established in 1935, it is among the first national parks in Italy. It was created to protect the flora, fauna and beautiful landscape of the Ortles-Cevedale mountain range, and to promote the development of sustainable tourism in the Alpine valleys of Lombardy, Trentino and South Tyrol.
I approximately 17,000 hectares of the Trentino sector of the Park include the municipalities of Peio, Rabbi and Pellizzano (Val di Sole).
Paneveggio - Pale di San Martino Nature Park
The Park is located in the middle of the Dolomites, in the eastern part of Trentino on the border with Veneto.
On the Park territory, in a relatively restricted spatial area, a great variety of ecological situations alternate, giving rise to naturalistic realities of extraordinary interest and biodiversity.
The iconic element is the Paneveggio Spruce Forest, also known as the Violin Forest.
Adamello Brenta Nature Park
The Adamello Brenta Nature Park is the largest protected area in Trentino.
Established in 1967, it extends into western Trentino and includes the Adamello and Brenta mountain groups.
The park offers visitors many visitor centres and themed trails to explore nature themes. It is very active in the field of research and education.
It is one of the national excellences for geology, recognised as a Geopark by Unesco.
The Numbers of Parks
98.000
protected hectares
16%
the portion of provincial territory protected as a Park
48
the municipalities concerned
10
integral reserves
16
the visitor centres
To those who visit their territories, the parks offer:
Highlights
RESALIO
Exploration of enhancement scenarios in the Stelvio National Park through the Pejo3000 ropeway.
Larch found on the Adamello at 3,100 metres above sea level
New record for the Adamello Brenta Nature Park. A 35 centimetre high specimen of common larch (Larix decidua) was found at an altitude of 3,130 metres.
Publication date:Tuesday 27 August 2024
The lammergeyer returns to nest in Trentino
Experts surveyed a brood in Val di Rabbi, in the Stelvio National Park. One of the young took its first flight on 16 July.
Extinct in the Alps in the 1930s, the bearded vulture was the subject of a reintroduction project in the Alpine arc in the 1990s - 2000s, which the Stelvio National Park also joined with the release of young bearded vultures from zoos. Twenty years ago, in a nest in the Braulio Valley, Stelvio was born, the first wild bearded vulture to be born in Italy and the second ever in the European Alps.
Publication date:Thursday 18 July 2024
Brussels: Cets confirmed for the Adamello Brenta and Paneveggio Pale di San Martino Nature Parks
European certification recognises commitment to sustainable tourism
Publication date:Friday 01 December 2023
"Deer Project - Conservation and Management Plan for Deer in the Stelvio National Park - Trentino".
The project is based on the management decision to reduce the ecological imbalances that large deer populations cause to ecosystems (to forest renewal, to other species) and to limit the damage caused to human activities of economic interest.
The aim of such management is to protect the welfare of the population and to mitigate the ecological imbalances generated by the large number of deer through the containment of their numbers.
To minimise these imbalances, the Park has decided to reduce the number of deer through selective culling.
Publication date:Friday 20 October 2023
Thesis on the Stelvio National Park
The Province of Trento has set up a collaboration with the 'Centro Studi per la Val di Sole' (Study Centre for the Val di Sole) Association to provide - as part of the recognition that the association already dedicates to the most deserving degree theses on topics of interest to the Val di Sole territory - a specific section on the themes of the Stelvio National Park.
Publication date:Friday 07 July 2023
CETS
The European Charter for Sustainable Tourism in Trentino's protected areas
The National Park, the two provincial parks and the Trentino Network of Reserves have among their objectives the promotion of sustainable tourism in their respective territories.
There are various ways to implement this project, but the only one is the planning tool adopted, which has proved to be very effective if well managed: the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas (CETS).
26/09/2022
