Editing Parnitha (section)

==Ecology==
Forests of [[Aleppo Pine]] cover all slopes beneath 1,000 m altitude, and are often threatened by forest fires, such as happened in 2005, 2007, 2021 and 2023. Above 1,000 m it is covered principally in [[Greek Fir]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Βλάστηση|url=http://www.parnitha-np.gr/index_vlastisi.htm|publisher=parnitha-np.gr|access-date=12 May 2015}}</ref> grasses and [[shrub]]bery, and beneath 300 m mainly farmlands and suburban housing to the east. About 1,000 species of plants can be found on the mountain, including [[crocus]] and [[tulips]], and the mountain also provides a native habitat to its [[red deer]] (''Cervus elaphus''), which were known in [[Ancient Greece|ancient times]]. After the traumatic fire in 2007 (''see below''), they are even scarcer. Several large mines lie to the northwest, and the ore from them was shipped to a nearby factory in industrial areas. Further forest fires occurred in the summers of 2021 and 2023 leaving only northern parts of the mountain forest unburned.