page_title: Prokletije
section_title: Fauna
hierarchical_section_title: Prokletije / Fauna
caption_attribution_description: العربية: منظر لوجه وشق أوراسيا. الوشق. Català: Linx nòrdic (Lynx lynx) Čeština: Rys ostrovid (Lynx lynx) Чӑвашла: Çӳлевĕç (Lynx lynx) Dansk: Los har karakteristiske øreduske (Lynx lynx) Deutsch: Eurasischer Luchs (Lynx lynx) English: Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) Nederlands: Los (Lynx lynx) Svenska: Lodjur (Lynx lynx)
context_page_description: Prokletije, also known as the Albanian Alps and the Accursed Mountains, is a mountain group on the western Balkan peninsula. As a subrange of the 1,000-kilometre-long Dinaric Alps range, Prokletije extending from northern Albania to Kosovo, eastern Montenegro and southernmost Serbia. Its peak in Albania, Maja Jezercë at 2,694 m, is the highest point, and the fourth highest peak in Albania and the highest in the Dinarides.
  The highest peak in Montenegro, Zla Kolata at 2,534 m and the second-highest in Kosovo, Đeravica at 2,656 m, and Pogled as the second highest peak of Serbia, are all part of the group. The highest peak in Albania, however, is Mount Korab, part of the Korab range, at 2,764 m high and in the east of the country on the border with North Macedonia.
  One of the most southernmost glacial masses in Europe, after Snezhnika glacier in Pirin massif in Bulgaria, was discovered, in the Albanian part of the range, in 2009.
  The regional economy is based mainly on agriculture, emigrant remittances and tourism.
context_section_description: Large mammal species that have long been extinct in other regions are found here, such as the Eurasian brown bear, grey wolf, red fox, European wildcat, roe deer, fallow deer, red deer, wild boar and European otter.
  The highly endangered Balkan lynx, a subspecies of the Eurasian lynx, is mainly found in the Thethi National Park where about roughly 20–50 individuals still roam, though poaching is still a large threat. Chamois are found throughout the high altitudes. About 720 chamois live between the borders of Kosovo and Montenegro alone. There is speculation that the mouflon roamed the Prokletije until World War I, when it disappeared.
  Bird species include the golden eagle, snake eagle, honey buzzard, peregrine falcon, capercaillie, rock partridge, scops owl, Eurasian eagle owl and the snow finch.
  The rivers are home to a growing number of marble trout. Among the amphibians are the alpine salamander (southernmost habitat), fire salamander, yellow-bellied toad and fire bellied toad . The rich herpetofauna include the fence lizard, green lizard, Greek tortoise and snakes such as the true vipers, including the poisonous horned viper and adder.
  So far 140 species of butterflies have been found, which makes Prokletije the richest area in Europe for butterflies.
  The Prokletije have one endemic species of lizard, the Prokletije rock lizard or Dinarolacerta montenegrina, named after the range.
caption: Lynxs are one of the largest predators in the area
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