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Countdown 2010 

The Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park engages to continue and boost the institutional activities of studying the Park bio-diversity, and the direct and indirect measures for bio-diversity's conservation.
The actions already in progress, or which will be initiated and completed by 2010 are:

1. continuing the annual census (started more than 10 years ago) of Ungulates and Tetraonidae, in order to acquire a knowledge of the status and dynamics of the populations.
2. an updating of the atlas of birds nesting within the Park, on a mesh with a 1 kilometre side reticulation.
3. a mapping of the nesting sites of the Corncrake (Crex crex), aiming at their protection from anthropic disturbances.
4. a mapping of the nesting sites of the Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) and of other diurnal and nocturnal birds of prey, aimed at their protection from anthropic disturbances.
5. studies on invertebrates and other low-investigated zoological groups, such as: Orthoptera, hypogean Invertebrates, nocturnal Lepidoptera, Chiroptera.
6. the reintroduction of species that have disappeared from the Park territory, such as: the marmot (Marmota marmota), the griffon (Gyps fulvus) and the rock-goat (Capra ibex).
7. the containment of the genetic pollution of the Park's fish fauna, by eliminating allochthonous species (the brown trout with its hybrids with the marble trout), and reintroducing autochthonous ones (the marble trout), which have been bred in captivity using strains genetically selected for autochthony.
8. the creation of a botanical garden for the conservation ex-situ of rare species of the Alpine flora.
9. the environmental education program "A scuola nel Parco",(At school in the Park).