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GR113 Mount Ochi and surrounding area
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Criteria: A4ii, B1ii, B2, B3, C2, C6
Coordinates:
38o 3' N
24o 27' E
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Altitude: 0-1398 m
Area: 18000 ha
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Site Description
A coastal mountain dominated by grazed scrub with numerous springs and streams. Livestock-farming is the main activity.
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Habitats: Artificial landscapes (13%, Arable land; Perennial crops, orchards and groves), Coastline/rocky areas (6%, Inland cliffs; Rock stacks and islets; Scree and boulders; Sea cliffs and rocky shores), Forest (21%, Alluvial and very wet forest; Broadleaved deciduous woodland; Broadleaved evergreen woodland), Grassland (5%, Humid grasslands; Steppes and dry calcareous grassland), Sea/marine area (5%, Sea inlets and coastal features), Shrubland (55%, Sclerophyllous scrub, garrigue and maquis; Scrub), Wetland (5%, Fens, transition mires and springs; Rivers and streams; Water fringe vegetation)
Land use: agriculture (75%), fisheries/aquaculture (10%), forestry (10%), tourism/recreation (5%)
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Protection status
National None International None
Birds
The site is particularly important for passage migrants. Species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria: Larus audouinii (non-breeding).
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| Bubo bubo Eurasian Eagle-owl | resident | 1989 | 5 | - | poor | B2, C6
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| Puffinus yelkouan Yelkouan Shearwater | non-breeding | 1996 | - | 900 | good | A4ii, B1ii, C2
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| Sitta neumayer Western Rock-nuthatch | resident | 1996 | 200 | - | unknown | B3
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| Emberiza caesia Cretzschmar's Bunting | breeding | 1996 | 150 | - | unknown | B3, C2, C6
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Conservation issues
Expansion of the road network and the ensuing development of tourism pose a serious threat to the area. Other threats are from mining in the western and northern parts of the site, abandonment of land, overgrazing, the use of poisoned baits, and the planned construction of wind-farms within the area. Part of the area is a candidate SAC.
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Threats:
abandonment/reduction of land management (low), agricultural intensification/expansion (medium), deforestation (commercial) (high), extraction industry (high), filling-in of wetlands (medium), forest grazing (high), industrialization/urbanization (high), infrastructure (high), intensified forest management (high), recreation/tourism (medium), unsustainable exploitation (high)
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Source:
Copyright © Hellenic Ornithological Society
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