Biodiversity

Dozens of caves and potholes, numerous dolines and sinkholes, countless smaller and larger gorges and the great altitudinal variety of Psiloritis mountain, lead to a wide variety of biotopes, sometimes with special local climatic conditions.

This diversity of life on Psiloritis combined with the isolation of the Cretan island forms an area of high biodiversity and endemism, which is unique for Greece.

The biological importance of the area was the reason why many parts of the mountain were included within the NATURA 2000 network.