Recursos

Publicaciones

Protecting Wetlands: Insights from the Northern Iberian Peninsula (Galicia, NW Spain)
Javier Ferreiro da Costa, Pablo Ramil-Rego
2023 |

Abstract

Wetlands are a key tool for environment conservation policy. They harbour important biodiversity values such as priority habitats and fragile species, reduce the impacts of floods, improve water quality, absorb pollutants, and protect shores from climate change effects, also acting as carbon reservoirs in the medium and long term. From an international point of view, those sites containing representative, rare or unique wetlands, are designated under Ramsar Convention, which was signed in 1971, being added to the Convention’s List of Wetlands of International Importance and become known as Ramsar sites. More than 50 years after the signing of Ramsar Convention, its degree of application is very uneven across the different territories. This paper analyses the situation from the Atlantic area of the Iberian Peninsula, and specifically from Galicia, a territory that has a large number of wetlands, both terrestrial, marine, underground and artificial, with sites of high value for biodiversity and natural heritage conservation, but where there is no adequate protection over them, documented by the presence of a large number of anthropic impacts that is leading to biodiversity deterioration, habitat destruction and species decline.

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Manual de identidad corporativa
LIFE INSULAR
2022 |

Este manual reúne as ferramentas básicas para o correcto uso e aplicación gráfica da marca LIFE INSULAR nas súas posibles expresións. Foi ideado pensando nas necesidades de todas as persoas responsables de interpretar, articular, comunicar e aplicar a marca nos seus diferentes ámbitos. O correcto e consistente uso da marca LIFE INSULAR contribuirá a que consigamos os obxectivos de identificación e reforzo da mesma.

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Galician Atlantic Islands National Park: Challenges for the Conservation and Management of a Maritime-Terrestrial Protected Area
Javier Ferreiro da Costa, Pablo Ramil-Rego, Manuel A. Rodríguez Guitián, Hugo López Castro, Carlos Oreiro Rey, Luis Gómez-Orellana , José Antonio Fernández Bouzas
2022 |

Abstract

At present, biodiversity conservation and management in Spanish National Parks in Spain must respond to a series of regulations at a European, national and regional level, also adapting to scientific-technical progress. The availability of increasingly precise data on the values to be conserved (ecosystems, habitats, species, geodiversity) in these protected areas enables more detailed management, but also requires more rigorous, powerful, and multidisciplinary tools. Maritime-terrestrial national parks are highly sensitive areas to public use, so their impact must be one of the most important factors to take into account when planning their management. This work evaluates the past and present challenges for conservation in Galician Atlantic Islands National Park (NW Spain), where biodiversity conservation and management has evolved over time in a significant way, providing a valid case study applicable to other national parks worldwide, as well as similar situations in other contexts and scenarios. Future challenges are arising in the National Park to improve the conservation status of natural habitats and wildlife, mainly through new European initiatives that may establish important synergies with other countries. Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, management, National Park, Natura 2000.

Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, management, National Park, Natura 2000 

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