Plants and Animals
- The Apennine (sheep), a modern breed of domestic sheep.
- Apennine Shrew, an insectivore endemic to Italy
- Apennine Yellow-bellied Toad, an amphibian endemic to Italy
- Appenine deciduous montane forests, an ecoregion of Italy
- Apennine Brown Bear, the Marsican Brown Bear
- Apennine wolf, the Eurasian Wolf
- Apennine Hare, the Corsican Hare
- South Apennine mixed montane forests
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