Blinaja Park – Gadime e Poshtme/Donje Dadime

The Hunting Ground of Special Importance “Blinajë/Blinaje”, extends to three municipalities, that of Lipjan/ Lipljan, Drenas/Glogovac and Shtimje/ Štimlje and has an area of 2795 ha. This hunting ground is of the closed type and lies at an altitude of 650-850 m above sea level, and has 40 ha of meadows, 32 artificial lakes, 88 lookouts for observation and monitoring, 12 traps for catching pigs. While the feeding area for large animals has 150 feeding places, 26 concrete terraces for pigs, 2 for reproduction, 32 areas for water, 15 places for receiving salt, training area for hunting dogs, etc. In total there are 2100 ha of state forests and 600 ha of private forests, the rest of 90 ha is agricultural area (meadows) and somewhere around 5 ha of water area.
The main species of wild fauna cultivated in Blinaja are: Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), Red deer (Cervus elaphus), European fallow deer (Dama dama), Wild boar (Sus scrofa). In addition to these species, there are also European badger (Meles meles), Beech marten (Martes sp.), European pine marten (Martes sp.), European gare (Lepus europeus), Common raven (Corvus corax), Euroasian magpie (Pica pica), Common buzzard (Buteo buteo), Garganey (Anas querquerdula), Wildcat (Felis sylvestris), Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), etc.
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Georeference: 42.502460, 20.986466
Plus Code – Google Maps: GX2P+VH Lipjan
Category: Nature
Subcategory: Park – The Hunting Ground of Special Importance
Legal protection status: Yes
Is it used for tourism? Yes
Is there potential for tourism in the future? /
Road infrastructure to the location: Good
Signs and orientation to the location: /
Boards on site: /

Photo 1: Bujar I Gashi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo 2: Arben Llapashtica, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons