page_title: Riserva naturale integrale Saline di Trapani e Paceco
section_title: Flora and fauna
hierarchical_section_title: Riserva naturale integrale Saline di Trapani e Paceco / Flora and fauna
caption_attribution_description: Top 50 Mediterranean Island Plants Campaign Calendula incana subsp. maritima English: According to IUCN/SSC specialists this is one of the most endangered species of island floras in the Mediterranean area. Français&#160;: D'après les spécialistes de l'IUCN/SSC, c'est une des espèces les plus menacées de la flore insulaire méditerranéenne. Italiano: In accordo con gli specialisti della IUCN/SSC questa è una delle specie più minacciate della flora insulare mediterranea.
context_page_description: Riserva naturale orientata Saline di Trapani e Paceco is an Italian nature reserve in the Province of Trapani between the municipalities of Trapani and Paceco on the west coast of Sicily. It was founded in 1995 and in the framework of the Ramsar Convention entrusted to WWF Italy. Its area of 987 hectares consists of two zones. Besides remarkable Mediterranean flora and fauna, there is a saline work museum in an old salt mill.
context_section_description: The nature reserve is the habitat of many endemic plant species. The halophyte flora which is adaptable to the salt marshes and the soils with high salt concentrations is represented by some of the rarest plants of Sicily, like the sea marigold (Calendula maritima), Limoniastrum monopetalum, Cynomorium coccineum or Limonium densiflorum.
  Rare animals are the osprey (Pandion haliaetus), the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), the common painted frog (Discoglossus pictus), as well as the insect species Bucherillo littoralis, Stenoniscus carinatus, Pterolepis elymica, Cicindela circumdata imperialis, Cicindela littorea goudati, Teia dubia and Aphanius fasciatus.
  The salt works are an important stopover for many European migratory birds before they fly across the Strait of Sicily to Africa. 170 bird species have been counted here.
caption: Calendula maritima
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