The ZEC Carnota-Monte Pindo natural area is listed as a special conservation area, within the Natura 2000 Network. The area that includes Mount Pindo, Carnota beach, the dunes network and adjacent marshes are an area of public interest.

 

A natural space that hosts a multitude of flora and fauna that make up unique ecosystems. Species such as dwarf oak (Quercus lusitanica) included in the Galician Catalog of Threatened Species; peat moss (Sphagnum pylaisii); mammals such as the otter (Lutra lutra); birds such as the pillara papuda (Charadrius alexandrinus) that chooses Carnota as one of the few places in Galicia to nest or invertebrates such as the oak beetle (Cerambyx cerdo), among others.