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The national park of Boukornine
Located in the Governorship of Ben Arous, in the South-west of the golf of Tunis, 18 km of the capital, near the town of Hammam-lif. The national park created by decree n° 87-282 of February 17th, 1987, covers a surface of 1.939 ha. The site overhangs the north-eastern littoral and constitutes the termination of the mountainous chain of the Tunisian Dorsal.
Natural heritage
Flora:
Very rich, it includes/understands more than
600 species. The principal gasoline which covers the ground remains the Thuja
of Berberie, a resinous shrub. The park is the single Maghrebian station where
one finds a plant herbaceous with tuber, endemic, the cyclamen of Persia, and
more than twelve species of orchises and wild tulips.
Fauna:
One finds there more than 25 species of
butterflies and more than 50 species of birds, of which various raptors. The
park shelters 25 species of mammals, of which the smallest mammal of the world,
the Etruscan shrew. Among the species reintroduced in the park and which
reproduced there one to little observe stags of Berberie and gazelles of
mountain and moufflons with cuffs.
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