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| GENERAL STATUS |
| The marine area
is part from Zembra and zembretta National Park which
was established in 1977. |
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| GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION |
| Zembra and zembretta
National Park is located in the north-eastern part of
the Gulf of Tunis, near Ras El Ahmer, about 15 Kilometers
from Sidi Daoued, city of Nabeul. |
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| BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY ELEMENTS |
| Zembra and Zembrettas
are mountainous islands with imposing cliffs. The site
presents a scientific potential top. The marine flora
presents some affinities with the one so-called "
cold of the west north of the Mediterranean. She/it
is composed by phanérogames as Posidonia Oceanica
and of algaes as Cystoseira spinosa…The marine
fauna of fishes is characterized by an abundance of
Castagnoles Chromis chromis à all depths, by
many Sparidaes (notably Diplodus vulgaris), and by Serranus
scriba, Epinephelus guaza, Sciaena nigra. The benthos
consists among others of Astroides very abundant calycularis
on the cliffs coins marines, the newt Charonia nodifera,
of the Cypreaes and the Patella gigantic Patella ferruginea
currently threatened with disappearance by intensive
pickup in the Mediterranean. |
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