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Nationalparks Repovesi and Gesäuse

Repovesi (Finland):

area: 30km2
sea-level: 76,6 repovesi1.jpg
foundation year: 2003

Geographie:
Bedrock of Repovesi is mostly
hard granit. There is also stone
rapakivi. In Repovesi there are
great mounds of rocks.

Plants:
-woodlands
-pines
-lichens
-twig-plants
-European aspens
-little-leaf lindens, ferns,
wood horsetails

Animals:
-red-throated diver(Gavia stellats)
-diver(Gavia arctica)
-flying squirrel (petau-ristinae)

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Gesäuse (Austria):

area: 125km2
sea-level: 1500
foundation year: 2003

Geographie:
Young mountain range from the end of
resozoikum and begin of tertier limestone, dolomite,
gromit.

Plants:
Orchids (almost 50 species),
forests of beeches and fin,block spruce forests and red pine forest.
Kinds of plants only in the area of the northeastern limestone Alps, for example primula clusiona.

Animals:
-eagle ouls (Bubo bulo)
-golden eagles (Aquea hrysoqos)
-Comman sandpipers
-white backed woodpeckers
-peregrine faloons


Lotta Laajalahti, Tytti Nyberg, Marjaana Nokka,Stefanie Fallnbuegl,Ulla Swoboda,Claudia Wagner, Stefan Traper, Juergen Kallinger