Ecology and Nature some species of Flora and Fauna

CITIES - The convention of Washington is an international essay that allows the protection of the wild kinds through the control of their commerce.

Directive UE - Her two directives of reference for the maintenance of the nature in Europe are the Directive "Habitat" n. 92/43/UE and the Directive "Birds" n. 79/409/UE.

The Law Italian n. 157/1992 point out the particularly protected kinds (art. 2) and those protected.

The WWF Italia has taken care of the Red Book of the Animals of Italy that restrains Red List compiled in base to the criterions defined by the IUCN.

The Panda is the symbol of the WWF, This can often point out that the article is taken care of by the WWF.

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THE ANIMALS SYMBOL OF THE OASES WWF

SARDINIAN BUCK

One of the kinds symbol for the WWF, to which the acquisition of Arcosu Mountain is dedicated. When the area was purchased in 1985, the present bucks were as soon as 70, have reached almost today 900 samples. The population of Mountain Arcosu is one of the principal ones of Sardinia. The Sardinian buck is present besides in a beautiful zone in the southeast of Sardinia.

ROE DEER (Capreolus capreolus)

A kind to which the WWF is very tied up. Symbol of the oasis of Vanzago, is a presence that enriches a lot of our woods. It is also one of the animals to which the WWF is dedicating a lot of energies to bring him in the areas in which he was practically extinct because of the indiscriminate hunting.

OTTER

Another kind to which the WWF is tied for a long time. The oasis of Persano was also born for protecting one of the vital nucleuses of the Italian population as the oasis of Vulci. To Pens one have also been realized some Centers Otter more important than Italy.

DUCKS

Thanks to a series of operations of introductions some kinds of wild ducks as the tufted duck tabaccata (Aythya fuligula), rare kind and you return to nest in some lake oases of the WWF.

CAPOVACCAIO

The WWF guards a couple of it and he has created besides a Semproniano Center Reproduction (Grosseto). Thanks to the Oases WWF a miraculous recovery of this small and splendid vulture is being tried.

MEADOW CHICKEN

And a rare and a little known bird, that risks to disappear because of the destruction of his habitat (fields and steppes). So the WWF has bought the grounds of a site where it nests. It foresees in one of the new Oases of Sardinia.

PELOBATE FOSCO (Dark)

One of the rarest amphibians and threatened, also because exclusive of the Lowland Padana. The WWF has promoted a country of safeguard of it on more fronts since from 1987, with some centers of breeding.

THE FROG OF LATASTE

Other endemic kind of the Lowland Padana, to risk of extinction because of the destruction of the natural habitats. Essential the maintenance of the present biotypes in the Lowland Padana. The population more main point of Frog of Lataste lives in the Oases WWF Lombards and in that of Alvisopoli in Veneto.

TORTOISE OF HERMAN

Because of the location and of the sensitive decline in action of the present populations in nature, in Italy the Tortoise of Herman is currently considered kind "in danger". Her more serious threats to the survival of this repent very nice are mainly represented by the fires, that every summer destroys thousand of hectares of zones to Mediterranean stain, from the destruction by now almost complete of the coastal dunes, and from the collecting in nature for commercial or individual purposes.

MARSHY TORTOISE

Because of the destruction and of the decay of the damp environments, in a lot of Italian regions the kind results to be extremely located and to risk. The more important Italian nucleuses and numerically more consistent they are currently found in Sardinia and in the areas marshy neighbors to the coasts of Veneto, of the Emilia Romagna, of Tuscany and of the Lazio.

THE PINK FLAMINGO

For Sardinia the pink flamingos have an important role: in fact the recent nest-buildings of the pink flamingos in the damp zone of the Molentargius, 3000 chicks (Pulli) in the year 2002, have enriched together subsequently our avifauna to other important nest-buildings as that of the rider of Italy, of avocet (Recurvirostra avocet), of pintail (Dafila acute), of hawk of swamp, of royal eagle, of bittern; the colonies of herons and the presence of rare kind as the Sardinian swallow-tail (Papilio machaon) awry Arcosu.