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Ancient Forests in the Northern Mediterranean: Neglected High Conservation Value Areas REPORT 2013 Ancient Forests in the Northern Mediterranean: Neglected High Conservation Value Areas Stephanie Mansourian, Magali Rossi and Daniel Vallauri © Daniel Vallauri SUGGESTED CITATION: Mansourian, S., Rossi, M. and Vallauri, D., 2013. Ancient Forests in the Northern Mediterranean: Neglected High Conservation Value Areas. Marseille: WWF France, 80 p. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work would not have been possible without the valuable contributions and input of the following people: Başak Avcıoğlu (WWF Turkey), Mersudin Avdibegovic (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia- Herzegovina), Rui Barreira (WWF Mediterranean office in Portugal), Ivan Bjelanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Jacques Blondel (CEFE/CNRS, France), Lluis Comas Boronat (CREAF, Spain), Miguel Bugalho (Technical University of Lisbon and WWF Mediterranean office in Portugal), Sabina Burrascano (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Christopher Carcaillet (EPHE, France), Andraž Carni (Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia), Gianluca Catullo (WWF Italy), Gherardo Chirici (Università degli Studi del Molise, Italy), Alfredo Di Filippo (University of Tuscia, Italy), Abdulla Diku (PSEDA-ILIRIA, Albania), Nigel Dudley (Equilibrium Research, UK), Nesat Erkan (Forest Research Institute, Antalya, Turkey), Joseph Garrigue (Réserve de la Massane, France), Nikolaos Grigoriadis (Forest Research Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece), Lourdes Hernandez (WWF Spain), Nicklas Jansson (Linköping University, Sweden/Turkey), Sedat Kalem (WWF Turkey), Mitko Karadelev (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Ljiljana Keca (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Evi Korakaki (WWF Greece), Sandro Lanfranco (University of Malta), Yıldıray Lise (UNDP, Turkey), Fabio Lombardi (Università degli Studi del Molise, Italy), Nicolas Luigi (Pro Silva, France), Damien Marage (ENGREF, France), Bruno Maric (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina), Ioannis Meliadis (Forest Research Institute, Greece), Stepjan Mikac (Faculty of Forestry, Croatia), Spela Pezdevsek Malovrh (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Aristotelis Papageorgiou (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece), Gianluca Piovesan (Università della Tuscia, Italy), Deni Porej (WWF Mediterranean Programme Office, Italy), Pedro Regato (Consultant, Spain), Marko Sabovljevic (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Stella Satalic (WWF office in Croatia), Roberto Scotti (Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italy), Enrique Segovia (WWF Spain), Denis Soulé (ONF, France), Darrin Stevens (Malta Environment and Planning Authority), Cinzia Sulli (Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park, Italy), Elvin Toromani (Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania), Jordi Vayreda (CREAF, Spain), Mislav Vedris (University of Zagreb, Croatia) and Dijana Vuletic (Croatian Forest Research Institute, Croatia). We would like to express our sincere thanks to all of them. Should there be any errors or misrepresentations, these are purely those of the authors. Table of contents TABLE OF CONTENTS Acronyms List . 02 Executive Summary . 03 Résumé exécutif . 05 INTRODUCTION. 08 OVERVIEW OF ANCIENT FORESTS. 14 POSITIONING ANCIENT FORESTS . 22 OVERVIEW BY COUNTRY OF MAIN FORESTS, ONGOING ACTIVITIES AND KEY ACTORS . 30 Albania. 31 Bosnia-Herzegovina . 34 Croatia . 36 Cyprus . 38 France . 39 The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) . 42 Greece. 44 Italy . 47 Malta . 50 Montenegro . 50 Portugal . 51 Serbia . 54 Slovenia . 56 Spain . 58 Turkey . 60 MAJOR GAPS AND PRIORITIES . 64 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. 68 REFERENCES . ..
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