Irati Forest

The Irati Forest (French: Forêt d'Iraty; French pronunciation: [fɔʁɛ diʁati]; Spanish: Selva de Irati；Basque: Iratiko oihana), found in the western Pyrenees, covers 17,300 ha (43,000 acres) of the Navarre region, astride on the Soule (Larrau) and Basse-Navarre (Mendive and Lecumberry) provinces (France) and Navarre (Spain), framed by Mount Okabe (1,466 m) and Pic d'Orhy (2,017 m).

[1] Located in a scarcely populated area, it has maintained a wild and mysterious aspect, fueled by many old Basque legends.

[3] Notable mammals include foxes, wild boar, martens, and roe deer.

Smaller mammals include the red vole, gray dormouse, and shrew, as well as the polecat and badger.

Despite being an intervened forest, it maintains a high degree of maturity, with a high diversity of environments that encompasses forests, wetlands, montane and subalpine meadows of the cervico (Nardus stricta), rocky, moor and scrubland, the Atlantic heaths with blueberry and argoma (Ulex gallii) or gorse (Genista hispanica subsp.