Fajãs de São Jorge (Portugal)

The biosphere reserve covers the entire Island of São Jorge, the fourth largest in the Archipelago of the Azores. The 1,053 metre-high Pico da Esperança is its highest elevation. The island’s rugged coastal cliffs form a unique landscape of highland meadows, peat bogs and scrubs. The combination of high altitude and coastal ecosystems has resulted in a wealth of endemic terrestrial flora. It is also the habitat of diverse invertebrate, terrestrial arthropod, mollusc and bird species. Close to 9,000 people live on the island.