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Site of Community Importance (SCI)

Limnes Kai Limnothalasses Tis Thrakis - Evryteri Periochi Kai Paraktia Zoni

Limnes Kai Limnothalasses Tis Thrakis - Evryteri Periochi Kai Paraktia Zoni (GR1130009) is a Site of Community Importance (SCI) in the Natura 2000 network, 28,606 hectares (286 km²), with a marine part. It lies in the municipalities of Komotini, Abdera, Iasmos and Maronia - Sapes (regional units Rodopi and Xanthi, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace). According to the European Environment Agency's database (2024 release) it protects 21 habitat types of Annex I and 17 species (mammals 2, reptiles 5, amphibians 2, fish 7, invertebrates 1).

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What it protects

Source: the European Environment Agency's Natura 2000 database, 2024 release, as reported by the member state. Habitat types are shown with their Annex I code and the EEA's English name. Common names of species come from Wikidata where they exist, otherwise the scientific name is shown. Left out: 2 species that the EEA records as non-significant presence.

Annex I habitat types
CodeHabitat type (as the EEA gives it)Cover (ha)Priority
1150Coastal lagoons6,437Priority
1110Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time3,152–
92D0Southern riparian galleries and thickets (Nerio-Tamaricetea and Securinegion tinctoriae)1,943–
1420Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic halophilous scrubs (Sarcocornetea fruticosi)1,521–
1410Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimi)1,225–
6420Mediterranean tall humid grasslands of the Molinio-Holoschoenion686–
1140Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide430–
3280Constantly flowing Mediterranean rivers with Paspalo-Agrostidion species and hanging curtains of Salix and Populus alba254–
92A0Salix alba and Populus alba galleries179–
91M0Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak -sessile oak forests137–
3150Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition - type vegetation71–
2120Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ("white dunes")45–
1120Posidonia beds (Posidonion oceanicae)41Priority
2220Dunes with Euphorbia terracina35–
1130Estuaries32–
2110Embryonic shifting dunes18–
1310Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand18–
1210Annual vegetation of drift lines16–
2190Humid dune slacks6–
3130Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or of the Isoëto-Nanojuncetea1–
1170Reefs––

Mammals (2)

Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra), Marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna)

Reptiles (5)

Balkan pond turtle (Mauremys rivulata), European pond terrapin (Emys orbicularis), Four lined snake (Elaphe quatuorlineata), Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni), Spur-thighed Tortoise (Testudo graeca)

Amphibians (2)

Southern crested newt (Triturus karelinii), Yellow-bellied toad (Bombina variegata)

Fish (7)

Alburnus vistonicus, Alosa vistonica, Barbus cyclolepis, European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus), South European Toothcarp (Aphanius fasciatus), Spiny loach (Cobitis taenia Complex), Twaite shad (Alosa fallax)

Invertebrates (1)

Lindenia tetraphylla

Designation

It is protected for the habitat types and species of Annexes I and II of the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) as a Site of Community Importance; member states designate such sites as Special Areas of Conservation (SAC).

Network codes
CodeTypeAreaDesignated (EEA)Name in the EEA register
GR1130009Site of Community Importance (SCI)28,606 haAug. 1996LIMNES KAI LIMNOTHALASSES TIS THRAKIS - EVRYTERI PERIOCHI KAI PARAKTIA ZONI

Legal basis: Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC). The register name is the one the EEA publishes.

Places inside and beside the site

Settlements, official bathing-water sites and sights with a page of their own whose point lies inside the boundary or up to 3 km outside it. Inside: 10. Up to 12 per kind are shown, best known first.

Towns and villages: inside the boundary (2)

Towns and villages: within 3 km outside the boundary

Beaches: inside the boundary (6)

Beaches: within 3 km outside the boundary

Sights: inside the boundary (2)

Sights: within 3 km outside the boundary

Works and permits in the site

Works and plans that could significantly affect a Natura 2000 site need an appropriate assessment of their effects under Article 6(3) of the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC). In Greece this is the Special Ecological Assessment (Ειδική Οικολογική Αξιολόγηση, ΕΟΑ) under law 4014/2011. The Natural Environment and Climate Change Agency (ΟΦΥΠΕΚΑ) is responsible for managing Natura 2000 sites, through the protected-area management bodies.

This page is not legal advice and does not say what is allowed on a particular property. Each site's rules are set in the official texts; for a property or a project, ask the competent authority. Natura 2000 at the European Commission.

How the numbers were counted

The boundary is the Ministry's (YPEN geoportal). The code, name, area, date of designation, habitat types and species are from the EEA's Natura 2000 database (2024 release, fetched 8 Oct 2026). Habitat cover is what the member state reports; where the EEA gives an "unknown" value (9999) or one larger than the site, it is not shown. The EEA gives the marine part only as yes or no, not as a share, and we do not use the "quality and importance" text of the data form. The EEA data is licensed CC BY 4.0 (copyright holder: the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment). The Greek and English names of sites and species, and the Wikipedia article titles, are Wikidata's (CC0).

Municipalities come from sample points inside the boundary: one is named when it holds at least 5% of the points that fall on land. For a purely marine site the nearest coastal municipality (within 60 km) is named. The settlements, beaches and sights are those that have a page on this site; municipal boundaries and island outlines are from OpenStreetMap.

Places nearby

Pages of this site, in a straight line and on the same side of the water, nearest first.

Nearest airport

See also

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from the sources below, with the date each was updated.

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