E 'unlikely to find along the shores of the Mediterranean, another place as the National Park of Gargano able to retain so little in so much biodiversity extension, we are faced with a small microcosm, a biological island.

In this corner of the Adriatic is possible in the short space of one day a total excursus able to understand the whole nature of the Mediterranean meeting on a few kilometers wide variety of habitats from arid steppe pedegarganiche to estesissime and dense forests, from the Mediterranean to the white spot limestone cliffs, the dunes and Lesina Varano to wonderful Tremiti Islands, from pine forests of Aleppo pines of the marshes and dense reed beds of the Marshes and Frattorolo dell'Oasi Salso lake, the lush woods of the Forest Umbra clarity to the sea.

This diversity of landscape and flora is, perhaps more so, a diversity of fauna. In the territory of the Park nest 170 species of birds nesting on 237 in Italy.
Forest for the living species has 5 peaks: green, red higher, lower, middle and back white.

Among the mammals is to remember the presence of deer italico, a subspecies endemic and exclusive of the park, there are also the wild boar, fallow deer, the weasel, the stone marten, wild cat, magnificent feline predator that lives in dense bush Forest Umbra, the hare, the hedgehog, the mole, the rate, the fox, the dormouse the dormouse, several species of mice and arvicole. E'estinta the monk seal, certainly present in some caves of the islands Tremiti until a few decades ago.