The Iberian highlands rewilding project

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The Alto Tajo Natural Park is famous for its canyons and gorges formed by the river Tagus and its tributaries

The Iberian Highlands is one of Europe’s most ambitious rewilding landscapes, covering more than 850,000 hectares across eastern Spain. Stretching across Castilla-La Mancha and Aragón, this vast area includes the Alto Tajo Natural Park, the Serranía de Cuenca Natural Park and the Montes Universales mountain range.

The landscape is a mixture of extensive pine, oak and juniper forests, open mountain plateaus, river valleys and dramatic limestone gorges. Like many rural parts of inland Spain, it has experienced decades of population decline and the abandonment of traditional agricultural land. This has created both challenges for local communities and opportunities for nature to recover.

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The Black Vulture (Aegypius monachus) and the LIFE Aegypius Return project in Spain

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Black Vulture - aegypius monachus - Birds and Birdwatching in Spain

The Black Vulture (Aegypius monachus), the largest of the Iberian vultures, is a strictly forest-dwelling bird, closely linked to the vast expanses of Mediterranean forest and scrub that cover the slopes of the western and central mountains of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands. Read on to find out about The Black Vulture (Aegypius monachus) and the LIFE Aegypius Return project in Spain

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Ten of the best natural parks to observe birds and wildlife in Spain

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Ten of the best natural parks to observe birds and wildlife in Spain

Spain has to rate as one of the best countries in in Europe for bird and wildlife watching. A destination with over 15 million hectares of protected areas and natural parks plus Spain is a strategic location on the avian migratory routes between Europe to Africa. So Ten of the best natural parks to observe … Read more

Islas Atlánticas National Park

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The Islas Atlánticas National Park are known in English as the Galician Atlantic Islands Maritime-Terrestrial National Park.
  • Region: Galicia.
  • Province: Pontevedra and La Coruña).
  • Declared a National Park: 2002.
  • Park surface area: 8,480 hectares.

The Parque Nacional Islas Atlánticas are known in English as the Galician Atlantic Islands Maritime-Terrestrial National Park. They are located on the southern coast of Galicia and are made up of four archipelagos, Cortegada and Sálvora in the Arousa estuary, facing the Estuary of Pontevedra and the Cíes, in the Vigo estuary.

In the past they were known as a pirate haunt but today they are uninhabited and only open to the public in the summer.

Points of interest

In Ons don’t miss the mysterious “furnas”, granite sea caves cut by the waves, such as the mythical “Burato do Inferno”, which was “believed to go all the way down to hell, and on stormy nights the voices of the dead could be heard”.

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