Shebenik National Park
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Shebenik National Park is a national park in eastern Albania adjacent to the border with North Macedonia. It encompasses 34,507.9 hectares and is specifically marked by a mountainous landscape supplie
Lake of Fushë Studnë
A panoramic view towards the park.
The beech forests of Rrajcë are part of the UNESCO Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Albania.
The Balkan lynx is a subspecies of the Eurasian lynx and is spread, although very rarely, across the park.
Biodiversity of Albania
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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 main lagoon banks and islands of Patoku are covered by salt marsh scrubs.