title: Guri i Nikës-Lenie-Valamarë Protected Landscape
text: # Guri i Nikës-Lenie-Valamarë Protected Landscape
  
  Guri i Nikës-Lenie-Valamarë Protected Landscape (Albanian: Peisazh i Mbrojtur Guri i Nikës-Lenie-Valamarë) is a protected area in southeastern Albania, spanning an area of 22 $km^2$ (8.5 sq mi). It was established in 1996 to protect several ecosystems and biodiversity of national importance. The resource reserve of Guri i Nikës falls inside the Pindus Mountains mixed forests terrestrial ecoregion of the Palearctic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome. A number of different species such as the brown bear and gray wolf, that are fast becoming rare in Southern Europe, reside in the region.
  
  | Typical habitat | Hills within the area | Forests of Guri i Nikës |
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