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Natural Protected Species

This weekend I spent in the Natural Park Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y las Villas . This park is pretty famous, among other things, the source of the river Guadalquivir. It is also Andaluza Game Reserve and has a wide range of rural tourism and active. And the latter is precisely what I was disappointed.

First, warn you that I was only there two days and had no time to see the park in all its splendor, but the large number of hotels, campgrounds, rental cottages, horse riding, multi adventure sheds ... and especially the large number of tourists gave me that impression. Of course, the park is very beautiful and I'm recommending anything not to visit, but it serves as an excuse to explain a few things.

Natural Parks in Andalusia (because much of the Community legislation on the subject is, and that's why I'm going to say may vary from one to another autonomy ... and no longer speak of countries), are a modalities of Protected Natural Areas (PNA).

The idea of \u200b\u200bthe PNA appeared with the first natural park of the story: Yellowstone Park, the same as one very similar to the beloved Yogi Bear in 1872. The basic idea is to protect areas of the territory with certain environmental values, limiting the activities that may be harmful.

course, to protect areas may have different characteristics and different risks, so now there are different forms of PNS. In Spain, the central government put some basic categories, and he clapped to the autonomous develop these ideas, and that if they could make some new ones. In Andalusia, the most important are:

National Park, with national parks, the aim is to create a network of spaces with distinctive ecosystems and representative on the national scene. Something like a collection of the best of the best. As they are for the state, is the central government that appoints, and just pick the cream:

• National Park Picos de Europa (Asturias, Cantabria and León)
• National Park Cabañeros (Ciudad Real and Toledo)
• National Park Coldstream Tables (Ciudad Real)
• Sierra Nevada National Park (Granada and Almería)
• Doñana National Park (Huelva, Cádiz and Sevilla)
• National Park Ordesa y Monte Perdido (Huesca)
• Timanfaya National Park (Las Palmas)
• Aiguas National Park Estany de Sant Maurici (Lleida)
• National Park Cabrera Archipelago (Balearic Islands)
• National Park of Atlantic Islands (Pontevedra and La Coruña)
• National Park Caldera (La Palma)
• Garajonay National Park (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)
• Teide National Park (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)
• National Park Monfragüe (Cáceres)

(I put the list because they are a source of pride for neighbors, and did not want any to feel excluded). In general we can say it is a Natural Park Come over.


Natural Parks: are large areas with environmental and social values \u200b\u200bthat deserve to be preserved. Say you are the most attractive. Each chooses their own autonomy. There are glass cases, economic activity has developed in its interior, so they allow certain uses such as grazing or tourism, provided they do not exceed the capacity of space.


There are many other National Parks Natural Parks, some in Andalusia are the aforementioned Sierras de Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas in Jaén (to whom it is dedicated this post), Sierra de las Nieves in Malaga, Sierra Norte de Sevilla, Cabo de Gata in Almeria, or the Natural Park of the Acorns in Cadiz (there are many more but I can not put full list ...)

Nature Reserves: When people talk about natural areas, immediately go to the parks, but at least for me and in Andalusia, the reserves are much more important. Soin very fragile, very threatened and very important. Almost always gaps and aquatic because they fulfill these requirements.

In a nature reserve can not do anything, either visit. Everything is dedicated to the conservation and scientific research. Of course, as assumed by many limitations can not be large.


Some nature reserves in Andalusia are Fuente de Piedra, Malaga, where he raises the Flamenco, or San Francisco Dehesa de Huelva (which is among the few non-aquatic). Natural Monuments

: This category is dedicated to items and milestones rather than territory. Natural monuments and natural monuments are precisely. They are, for example, trees, geological formations Weird ... They are usually visited because it is not much protection as giving a "tag." Some examples include screw of the Torcal in Antequera (Málaga), Huesna Falls in Sevilla and Jaén Quejigo Coal.


Well, there are other figures such as suburban parks, natural landscapes and landscape protected, and that's to say nothing of the categories of the European Union or the relevant international treaties. There are other ways to protect the territory are ENP, as classified forest or game reserves (I can talk about it another time). At the moment we are left with these four that are well represented.

Parks Nature Reserve, Natural Monument and the various factors have limited its use in different ways. So in the parks, you can hunt or not depending on the park in question, while in the Reserves is strictly prohibited and the monument is too small.

For Parks, who is now what most concerns us, if we spend with the limitations, the populations that owns the land can Mosque. This should not, because it is the pastor angry because the bread loses her children by prohibiting grazing the first to set fire to the mountain. It is important that citizens are proud and to which you are interested conserve space. Therefore it is essential to allow activities are carried out. For example, active quarries within parks, can be constructed, grazing, gathering wood for charcoal, collecting mushrooms and asparagus, walking, driving ... Subject to compliance with conservation. Each park will have its own rules of what can be done and where.


The limit is what is called Payload. Cargo capacity in ecology and conservation is how much resource can be tapped it is depleted. For example, the carrying capacity of river water is the amount of water we can get without being dried. Of course, for quantifiable things, like mushrooms, water or wood is easy to limit, but what is the carrying capacity of the landscape? For construction? for tourism?

Yes, tourism is important, yes, promotes economic development in an area, but how far can we go? "Should really happy to get buses to pensioners to be fed to wild animals used to being fed the tourists?

The impression I got was not a natural park, it seemed more an amusement park. Actually that mass tourism leads neither to conservation or environmental education. The environment is not for the masses, can not be fitted lines as in the attractions, you can not sell jerseys with a picture of tourists next to a tree. The environment not only for the enjoyment .


Anyway, after this rant, Cazorla just say that I found a wonderful site, very nice and I recommend you go (provided they do not shout at the animals to turn around ... that I've seen this). Tourism is a much better more naturalistic and less on Sundays.

And of course I am very interested in reading your opinions: What are the natural spaces in your communities? What do you like most and least? ...


PS: I apologize beforehand if any of the images I've used have copy-right. If the author so wishes can I remove them, just remember that the box Shrodinger no profit, only seeks to popularize science and the environment.