The coast-line of Maremma Toscana from Principina a Mare to Talamone was converted into the Natural Park of Maremma in 1975, thereby creating a suitable mean for protecting the regional environment while allowing its use for social destinations. The Park, that covers one hundred square kilometers, borders on the sea and, in its southern part, overlooks it from a high and eroded shore. Further north the beaches are covered by a variety of pioneer species, well adapted to the difficult sandy and brackish environment, and replaced by typical mediterranean species as you move farther from the sea-shore. The coast-line has gone through deep changes in geological eras as well as over the last decades; therefore, it has gained ground to the south of Marina di Alberese, whereas it has receded on both sides of Bocca d’Ombrone.
From a naturalistic point of view, the complex comprising the Uccellina Mountains, the pine-forest of Marina di Alberese and the Trappola marshes create a valuable pattern of ecosystems on which man has intervened in different ways and in different times, contributing to shape the landscape without exploiting or impoverishing it. The Park fauna, though it does not feature large mammals, remains of which have been found, includes wild horses, wild boars, fallow-deer, roe-deer, porcupines, badgers, foxes, wild cats, beech-martens, weasels and several mricromammals.
There is also a variety of birds, reptils and amphibians. The flora includes the euphorbia, the houseleek, Jupiter’s beard, the asphodel, the cliff-carpeting yellow poppy, the sea-lily and timothy- grass among the rocks, the fragmites, the rushes and the tamerisks in the marshes and along the steep bank; the honeysuckle, the butcher’s broom, the guelder rose, the spurge laurel, and many other underhood and other types of species living in the Park