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TheGreatMountainEcologicalCorridor
Cantabric‐Pyrenees–Alps&
WesternIberia Carlos Sánchez (Spanish Commi3ee of IUCN, FNYH)
Miquel Rafa (Fundació Catalunya‐ La Pedrera)
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World Parks Congress Durban 2003:
Sentinel Peak summit
2004: Corridors Workshop in Banff & Canadian Rockies
2005: International Mountain Corridors Conference in the Pyrenees
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DIAGNOSIS
• Protected Areas • Natura 2000
• Protected areas already cover about 24% of the scope of the project • Natura 2000 will increase PA coverage until 38%
Max. length: 1,300 km Total area: 206,000 sq km
DIAGNOSIS
WOLF EXPANSION SINCE 1990
Colonization of the Alps (1992-1998) Natural Re-colonisation of Massif Central & Pyrenees (2004)
Black Vulture Reintroduction in the Pyrenees
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• Improve corridors between the 2 subpopulaTons • 3 years project (2009‐2011) • € 1.1 milion
“Corredores para el oso” - Connecting the Bear populations in the Cantabric Mountains
Working Group on Large Mountain Corridors & connectivity: http://connectivityconservation.org/
Handbook on Connectivity Conservation (2010)
IUCN Resolution approval (2008)
“To promote the Great Mountain Connector Cantabric- Pyrenees- Massif central – Alps”
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Great connectors: there’s much more aker the mountains of N iberia…
WESTERN IBERIA
The Western Iberian Project is an innovaTve case to ter r i tor ia l conservaTon management carried out by a cooperaTve network of several public and private organizaTons using Land Stewardship agreements.
The terr itory corresponds to a transnaTonal natural area of over 2.5 million hectares linking the Portuguese‐Spanish border in the Central West of the Iberian Peninsula
1 Na9onal Park Monfragüe 4 Natural Parks Natura 2000 Network
Arribes del Duero Las Batuecas‐Sierra de Francia Tajo Internacional Douro Internacional
46 SCI 40 SPA
WESTERN IBERIA
WESTERN IBERIA Hot spot of biodiversity
Rec. 4.131 "Conserva9on of the Western Iberian Peninsula"
Rec. 149 " Transboundary ecological corridors in the Western Iberian Peninsula"
The area represents one of best example of Mediterranean agroecosystem of the Peninsula
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2007, CAMPANARIOS DE AZABA, PRIVATE RESERVE
LIFE07 NAT/E/000762 Biodiversity Conserva0on in Western Iberia
CAMPANARIOS DE AZABA
CONSERVATION ECOTURISM
FAUNA AND FLORA REFUGE LA PAREJA
BIOLOGIC RESERVE SIERRA DE GATA
RISCOS DEL ÁGUEDA PRIVATE RESERVES
FAIA BRAVA
ARRIBES DEL DUERO
LAS BATUECAS SIERRA DE FRANCIA
NATURAL PARKS
TAJO INTERNACIONAL
NATURAL PARKS
MONFRAGÜE Na9onal Park
DOURO INTERNACIONAL
NATURAL PARKS
MALCATA
