For a small country, Albania is characterised by a considerable wealth of terrestrial and marine ecosystems and habitats with contrasting floral, faunal, and fungal species, defined in an area of 28,7
The Albanian Alps represent a major geomorphological part of Albania. It is the southernmost continuation of the Dinaric Alps, which extend along the Adriatic Sea from the Julian Alps in the northwest down to the Albanian Alps in the southeast.
The Albanian Adriatic and Ionian Sea coastlines are dotted with many ecosystems of an immense significance such as rocky coasts, lagoons, wetlands, sand dunes, river deltas, hydrophilic and hydrophobic forests.
The forests of Rrajcë and Gashi River are part of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians UNESCO World Heritage Site due to the extraordinary value of these forests.
The main lagoon banks and islands of Patoku are covered by salt marsh scrubs.
The Albanian Ionian Sea Coast is a coastline of the north-eastern Ionian Sea, that encompasses the south-western border of the Republic of Albania, stretching from the southern half of Karaburun Penin
Biodiversity of Albania
…conventionally subdivided into four terrestrial ecoregions of the Palearctic realm. The Illyrian deciduous forests stretch along the Albanian Adriatic and Ionian Sea Coast in the west across the Mediterranean Basin, while the Pindus Mountains mixed forests occur in the Eastern and Southeastern Mountain Ranges in the east…
The Albanian Riviera as seen from the Llogara Pass at the Ceraunians within the Llogara National Park.
The crystal clear waters of Ksamil in the south of the coastline.
Maja e Çikës inside the Ceraunian Mountains as seen from the beach of Dhërmi.