BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

Flora and fauna of Gorski Kotar seems to be an open book of history of Nature... Different altitudes, abundant precipitation, versatile habitat and the eco system of the area created by limestone and dolomite stone substratum are of European significance.

Extensive mountain forests, predominantly beech and fir-t rees, mountain pasture lands and meadows, rocks, pits and caves, rivers and lakes... hide numerous protected, rare and endemic species of plants, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds, butterflies... The list of those worth mentioning is so long that we have singled out only a few: