Rare Plants and Animals

Clypso bulbous

111 species of 1162 species of plants are protected in the Murmansk region. There are 22 species of plants on the territory of the region, put in the Red Book of Russia. Places of concentration of rare species and floristic resources are mountain ranges, flood-lands, debouchments of rivers and some parts of coast.
 

Merlin in flight

Animality of our region is various. There are more 2 thousand species of insects, about 140 species of fish, 270 species of birds and 32 species of mammals in the region. About 50 species of animals are booked in the Red Book of the Murmansk region, .23 species of which are in the Red Book of Russia.