Beech Forests

Connected Sites: 18

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Connected Sites

  • Primeval Beech Forests
    Primeval Beech Forests
    Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine
    Inscribed: 2007
    2.71
    316
    37
    European beech
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Great Smoky Mountains
    Great Smoky Mountains
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 1983
    3.36
    172
    11
  • Durmitor National Park
    Inscribed: 1980
    3.46
    123
    6
    The dominant species include ... beech ... (AB ev) (Fagus sylvatica)
  • Plitvice Lakes
    Inscribed: 1979
    4.12
    291
    11
    The forest comprises pure stands of beech Fagus sylvatica at lower altitudes and mixed stands of beech and fir Abies alba higher up. (UNEP-WCMC)
  • Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.57
    120
    7
    Ordesa and monte perdido: "At elevations up to 1,000-1,700 meters, there are extensive forests of beeches (Fagus sylvatica), Abies alba, pines (Pinus sylvestris), oaks (Quercus subpyrenaica), and a lesser extent of birches (Betula pendula), ashes (Fraxinus excelsior), willows (Salix angustifolia)."
  • Møns Klint
    Inscribed: 2025
    2.77
    41
    2

    "crowned by green beech tree forests on top" (OUV statement)

  • Tongariro National Park
    Inscribed: 1990
    3.66
    119
    6
    Southern beech
  • Te Wahipounamu
    Te Wahipounamu
    New Zealand
    Inscribed: 1986
    4.18
    121
    11
    Southern beech (a separate family from the other European / Asian beeches, but within the same Fagales order).
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Shirakami-Sanchi
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.06
    34
    10
    Japanese beech or Siebold's beech, native to Japan
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Pirin National Park
    Inscribed: 1983
    2.86
    107
    11
    At lower levels between 1,000 and 1,500m, some broadleaf forest mainly of beech Fagus sylvatica, covers 5% of the Park (UNEP-WCMC)
  • Mount Etna
    Inscribed: 2013
    3.55
    264
    12
    "The mountain zone (mainly falling within the core zone) is generally referred to as the "beech belt" but on Etna, where the beech is at the extreme southern limit of its distribution range, it is spread in a very fragmentary way. The present beech woods on Etna can, in fact, be considered relicts of the much bigger formations which were widespread in the post glacial period when the climate was colder and wetter. (...) These beech forests in Mount Etna reach the highest altitudes ever recorded in Europe, and at the same time they represent the most southern location (the lowest latitude)." (Nomination file, p. 59-60)
  • Meteora
    Meteora
    Greece
    Inscribed: 1988
    4.32
    240
    10
    beech Fagus sylvatica forest above 700m (UNEP-WCMC)
  • Lorentz National Park
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.34
    4
    1
    Nothofagus beech forests
  • Huangshan
    Inscribed: 1990
    3.79
    84
    6
  • Fanjingshan
    Inscribed: 2018
    3.23
    21
    1
    the largest and most contiguous primeval beech forest in the subtropical region (AB ev)
  • Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.40
    39
    5
    The Colchic forests comprise several types of vegetation, among which the East-Euxinian beech forests and oak forests that alternate with hornbeam-chestnut-beech forests. (Nomination Text, p. 23)
  • Los Glaciares
    Los Glaciares
    Argentina
    Inscribed: 1981
    4.35
    117
    7
    Subantarctic or Magellanic forest dominated by the cold-hardy southern beech, Nothofagus (UNEP-WCMC)
  • Los Alerces National Park
    Inscribed: 2017
    3.68
    23
    4
    "Dominated by a number of Southern Beech species" (AB ev)