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Background Sicily represents a key area for three species listed in Annex I of the Birds Directive: Bonelli’s eagle (Aquila fasciata), Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) and lanner falcon (Falco biarmicus). It hosts 100% of the confirmed nesting population of Egyptian vulture, and 65% of the Italian population as a whole and 65% of the national la ...

Background Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean, and its geographic isolation, proximity to Africa, and the geomorphological diversity of its mountains, plains, rivers, dunes, estuaries and islets, mean that its biodiversity is among the most varied in Europe. Sicily has 238 Natura 2000 sites, which are threatened by fire, grazing, erosion, l ...