Shebenik-Jabllanice National Park

The National Park Shebenik - Jablanica (Albanian Parku Kombëtar Shebenik - Jabllanicë ) is a national park in Eastern Albania. Its area is about 339 km ². It includes the mountain ranges Jablanica and Shebenik on the Macedonian border north of Lake Ohrid.

History

The national park was established in 2008 and is the youngest National Park of Albania. Together with a planned national park on the Macedonian side could result in a 500 km ² large reserve.

Flora and Fauna

The border area is under protection is one of the Green Belt Europe, which serves as a refuge for rare animal and plant species. These include, among others, bears and wolves, but especially the endangered Balkan lynx Lynx lynx martinoi, one living in Macedonia and Albania subspecies of the Eurasian lynx, of which there are only about 100 copies. In the summer of 2012 could be photographed for the first time a Balkanluch in the park. Deer and chamois were almost completely eradicated on the Albanian side of poachers due to the lottery uprising.