Flore and Fauna – Distretto Turistico

Once endemic in northern Sicily mountains, the Abies nebrodensis had been considered extinct since 1900. It was rediscovered in 1957 in the...

The description, albeit brief, of Madonie’s Park vegetation, can not be said exhausted without a necessary side note on the endemic flora and the...

Genista cupani (Genista cupanii guss.) is a plant of Farbaceae family. This family is endemic of Sicily. Its name is an homage to the memory of...

Name Wild boar – Sus scrofa (Linneo 1758) Order Artiodactyla Family Suidae Identification It has longer paws and it is more slender than...

Name Fallow deer – Dama dama (Linnaeus. 1758) Order Artiodactyla Family Cervidae Identification Medium-sized ungulate (Body length 130-170...

It is a medium-sized hare, ranging in length from 40 to 70 cm, while the weight of an adult hare varies from 2 to 3.5 kg. Endemic to the...

The European hedgehog is a small animal (body length: 230-290 mm, adult weight: 400-1100 g) with the body entirely covered with short and thick...

Appearance Of all the species that make up the genus Vulpes, the red fox is the largest, the most widespread and includes many subspecies. Its fur...

Name Butterflies (Rhopalocera) Class Insects Order Lepidoptera (name derived from the Greek words “lepi” for scale and “pteron” for wings. Wings...

The “Bosco di Favara e Bosco Granza” protected area covers an agricultural land belonging to Aliminusa, Cerda, Montemaggiore Belsito and Sclafani...

The St. Calogero Mountain Range is a massif consisting of limestone, dolomite and siliceous layers, and Numidian Flysch sediments. The ridges...

Name Aquila chrysaetos (Linnaeus, 1758) Order Accipitriformes Family Accipitridae Appearance The chrysaetos eagle, “golden” in Greek...