The Great Mountain Ecological Corridor Cantabric‐ Pyrenees –Alps & Western Iberia 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
DIAGNOSIS
Max. length: 1,300 km Total area: 206,000 sq km
• Protected Areas • Natura 2000 • Protected areas already cover about 24% of the scope of the project • Natura 2000 will increase PA coverage until 38%
DIAGNOSIS
WOLF EXPANSION SINCE 1990
Natural Re-colonisation of Colonization Massif Central of the & Pyrenees Alps (1992-1998) (2004)
Black Vulture Reintroduction in the Pyrenees
“Corredores para el oso” - Connecting the Bear populations in the Cantabric Mountains
• Improve corridors between the 2 subpopulaTons • 3 years project (2009‐2011) • € 1.1 milion
IUCN Resolution approval (2008) Working Group on Large Mountain Corridors & connectivity: http://connectivityconservation.org/ Handbook on Connectivity Conservation (2010)
“To promote the Great Mountain Connector Cantabric- PyreneesMassif central – Alps”
Great connectors: there’s much more aker the mountains of N iberia…
WESTERN IBERIA
The Western Iberian Project is an i n n o v a T v e c a s e t o t e r r i t o r i a l conservaTon management carried out by a cooperaTve network of several public and private organizaTons using Land Stewardship agreements.
WESTERN IBERIA The territory 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 Arribes del Duero Las Batuecas‐Sierra de Francia 4 Natural Parks Tajo Internacional Douro Internacional 46 SCI Natura 2000 Network 40 SPA
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
2007, CAMPANARIOS DE AZABA, PRIVATE RESERVE LIFE07 NAT/E/000762 Biodiversity Conserva0on in Western Iberia
CAMPANARIOS DE AZABA CONSERVATION
ECOTURISM
FAIA BRAVA
FAUNA AND FLORA REFUGE LA PAREJA
PRIVATE RESERVES
BIOLOGIC RESERVE SIERRA DE GATA
RISCOS DEL ÁGUEDA
LAS BATUECAS SIERRA DE FRANCIA ARRIBES DEL DUERO
NATURAL PARKS
TAJO INTERNACIONAL
MONFRAGÜE Na9onal Park
NATURAL PARKS
DOURO INTERNACIONAL
MALCATA
NATURAL PARKS