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The Great Mountain Ecological Corridor Cantabric‐ Pyrenees –Alps & Western Iberia Carlos Sánchez (Spanish Commi3ee of IUCN, FNYH) Miquel Rafa (Fundació Catalunya‐ La Pedrera)

The Great Mountain Ecological Corridor

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Cantabric‐Pyrenees–Alps

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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

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2004: Corridors Workshop in Banff & Canadian Rockies

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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

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DIAGNOSIS

WOLF EXPANSION SINCE 1990

Colonization of the Alps (1992-1998) Natural Re-colonisation of Massif Central & Pyrenees (2004)

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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

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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… 

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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. 

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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 

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WESTERN IBERIA Hot spot of biodiversity 

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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 

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CAMPANARIOS DE AZABA 

CONSERVATION ECOTURISM 

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 FAUNA AND FLORA REFUGE LA PAREJA 

BIOLOGIC RESERVE SIERRA DE GATA 

 RISCOS DEL ÁGUEDA 

PRIVATE RESERVES 

 FAIA BRAVA 

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ARRIBES DEL DUERO 

LAS BATUECAS SIERRA DE FRANCIA 

NATURAL PARKS 

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TAJO INTERNACIONAL 

NATURAL PARKS 

MONFRAGÜE 

Na9onal Park 

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DOURO INTERNACIONAL 

NATURAL PARKS 

MALCATA 

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