Zona Speciale di Conservazione Monte Baldo di Brentonico

Monte Baldo di Brentonico (S.A.C. IT3120103)

Quality and importance: The present plant landscape is a happy balance between nature and human pastoral activities. There is an extraordinary presence of endemic species in a valuable environment from the landscape perspective. The site has a provincial and national significance due to the presence of endangered animal species, important glacial relicts, exclusive and/or typical of the Alps, as well as invertebrates connected with forests in good natural conditions.

Vulnerability: the abandonment of the pastoral activities on the one hand, and the further increase in the anthropic impact on the other (opening of streets and/or ski lifts) are real threats for the area.

Types of priority habitats of community interest (Annex I of the Habitats directive):
4070 - Bushes with Pinus mugo and Rhododendron hirsutum (Mugo-Rhododendretum hirsuti)
6230 - Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on siliceous
substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas, in Continental Europe)

Bird species subjected to special conservation measures (Annex I of the Birds directive): golden eagle, Red-backed shrike, Short-toed snake eagle, Boreal owl, Rock partridge, Black grouse, Western marsh harrier, European honey buzzard, Hazel grouse, Western capercaillie, Black kite, Ortolan bunting, Black woodpecker, Corn crake, European nightjar.

Animal and plant species of community interest whose conservation needs the designation of special areas of conservation (Annex II of the Habitats directive): Mammals: Bechstein's bat, Lesser mouse-eared bat, Long-fingered bat, Greater mouse-eared bat, Lesser horseshoe bat
Amphibians: Yellow-bellied toad
Plants: lady's-slipper orchid, Saxifraga tombeanensis