The Values and the Problems of the Natural Heritage of the Region of Elbasan

Abstract

Various studies, among them geographical ones, like the application of the new concepts on the Natural Heritage, since 1990, helped in the construction of the biodiversity protection strategy, which served as a basis for providing legal support conservation and management of Natural heritage for identifying and proposing new protected sites, which now accounts around 16% of the territory of Albania and are represented by the six categories of protected areas provided by the IUCN. Studies continue to expand about the protected areas and preparation of their management plans. In this context, particular importance have the studies of the natural heritage for particular regions of the country. Our article has the object of study of Natural Heritage of the region of Elbasan,concentrating mostly on the natural momuments of this region. This article makes evident this valuable asset emphasising in this way the scientific,echological, cultural,spiritual and turistics values of its sites:in the many problems of the protected areas and it analyses and proposes the aplication of better models in the managment with the porpose: the protection and regeneration of the values, their return in a source of scientific informaiton, in didactic laboratories and ecological and patriotc education notably in attractive turistic objects with the intantion of the stable development of the region.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n2p103