Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
A mountainous-dolomitic area located in a markedly pre-Alpine environment, characterised by pinnacles and vast screes interspersed with alpine meadows, mugo pines, extensive broadleaf and silver fir forests, as well as regularly alpine pastures and grasslands.
In the lower parts, there are significant patches of Illyrian beech forest and many valleys.
The site includes the small Vallarsa dolomites, the Baffelan subgroup, the head and left slope of the Val d'Ala and the alpine pastures of Lessinia.