Mount Parnassus is a mountain in Central Greece that towers above Delphi, north of the Gulf of Corinth. The significant biodiversity, both in flora and fauna, led the authorities to the establishment of the National Park of Parnassus in 1938, the year when the systematic mining of bauxite started. The Park comprises a landscape of 15.000 hectares spreading on the mountainous region between Delphi, Arachova and Agoriani. Among the endemic flora species under protection are the Cephalonian fir tree and the Parnassian peony. In the Park sojourn prey birds and wolves, boars, badgers and weasels.