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The Apuan Alps () are a mountain range in northern Tuscany, Italy. They are included between the valleys of the Serchio and Magra rivers, and, to the northwest, the Garfagnana and Lunigiana, with a total length of approximately . (1980). 9780895770875, Reader's Digest Association, Inc. ISBN 9780895770875
The name derives from the Apuani Ligures tribe that lived there in ancient times.
The mountain range is known for its Carrara marble. Due to its extraction height environmental impact, the No Cav movement strongly opposes this activity.
The No Cav environmental movement is fighting for the closure of the marble quarries in the Apuan Alps due to their environmental impact.
The area houses over 300 species of birds like red-billed chough, common raven, buzzard, golden eagle, peregrine falcon, and kestrel, barn owl, little owl, tawny owl, and common owl.
Many migrant species are present too: the common nightingale, the black redstart, the red grouse, the wryneck, the cuckoo, the wallcreeper, and the alpine swallow while many species of passerines and tits, the great spotted woodpecker, and the green woodpecker are present throughout the year and well distributed.
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