Category Nature

The Corsican mouflon is a wild mountain sheep. ‘Ovis gmelini musimon var. Corsicana’ – this is to distinguish him from his Sardinian and Cypriot cousins.  This mouflon has never been hybridised, so the preservation as a separate species is important to defend.
The mouflon prefers open country, hard underfoot, covered with grassy or bushy vegetation.  A Mediterranean hoofed animal who seeks steep slopes and rocks to protect himself from man and stray dogs. He is known for having diverse tastes in herbaceous food – mainly grass, but also leaves, buds, young shoots, berries, nuts, chestnuts, roots, mushrooms and lichen.  His main water intake is through the fresh vegetation he eats, as he rarely drinks.

Mouflons react to climatic and seasonal changes by seeking shelter from snow in winter, or...

The Corsican Salamander was, for a long time regarded as a sub-species of the spotted salamander from the mainland – but, since not so long ago has become identified as a full-scale species.
Genetic studies have shown that the closest relative of the island’s salamander would be the black salamander from the Alps, branching off five million years ago.

‘U Cateddu Muntagnolu, Turcu Montanu, Cadellu Lurcu, Cane Montile’

Very easy to identify, the Corsican Salamander has shiny skin and is dotted with yellow spots (sometimes orange), irregularly laid out.
The tail is cylindrical, and at a larval stage, it can be distinguished from the Corsican Euprocte by the presence of yellow spots at the base of the legs.

Size: from 11cm – 21cm                                                                 ...

With an ideal climate for growth, olive trees have grown here in Corsica for thousands of years, already present in the Middle Ages, and were very much part of the original flora of the island, where picking wild olives was a regular tradition – a variety range consisting of Sabina, Biancaghja, Capannace, and Curtinese to mention but a few, also covering the whole region. With minimal requirements, olive trees can grow on rugged, dry, flat or even hilly land – ideal with the high temperatures this island can reach over the summer months, and with the lack of frost, the fruit fully ripens and matures on the trees, enabling a smooth delicious taste.

An extensive program of national replanting saw the day in 1956, resulting from an important freeze that had taken place, and in more recent tim...