[1] It covers an area of approximately 170,000 hectares and includes the largest and most productive forest ecosystems in Greece.

[4] The Rhodope Mountains were not covered with ice during the Pleistocene and as a result they have a really biodiverse flora, with a number of 827 species and 288 subspecies of plants having been recorded in the region.

A different part of the park is mostly represented by ecosystems of beeches and European black pines and there is also a small zone where there are mainly meadows and herbaceous vegetation with sporadic bushes.

[5] Many of the iconic European mammals can be found in the Rodopi Mountain Range National Park, like the brown bear, the grey wolf, the wild boar, the red fox, the European wildcat, the Eurasian otter, the Eurasian badger and the roe deer.

The rich diversity of mammals which dwell inside the forests of the park had as result the integration of large areas into the Natura 2000 network.