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Mountain areas

Mountainous areas, characterised by steep environmental gradients, are some of the most sensitive and vulnerable areas to climate change.  Mountainous areas are to be found in all the country’s biogeographic regions - Mediterranean, Alpine, Atlantic and Macaronesian – and are home to areas of immense biodiversity and endemic wealth, managed using traditional techniques in the various sectors that contribute to conserving their high natural and cultural value and to shaping the resulting landscape (forests and pastureland, agriculture and livestock breeding, hunting and fishing, water and la

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ADAPTaRES Project: Adaptation to climate change in Macaronesia through the efficient use of water and its reuse

The islands of Macaronesia are not spared from the effects of climate change, being very vulnerable to their consequences given their particular geographical situation, insularity, remoteness from the continent, fragmentation, external dependency, scarcity of natural resources, demographic density, dependence on the tourism sector and great biodiversity.

Reconversion of former irrigated land into pastures in the area of Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park

The Tablas de Daimiel is a virtually unique wetland in Europe and the last representative of the ecosystem known as 'river tables,' once characteristic of the central plain of our Peninsula. It is a complex ecosystem that combines the characteristics of a floodplain, created by the overflows of the Guadiana and Gigüela rivers at their confluence, with an area of groundwater discharge from a large aquifer, resulting in the formation of a waterlogged river area: the river tables.

Pteridum Project.- Adaptation to climate change in the Cantabrian mountains by controlling common fern populations (Pteridium Aquilinum) in a circular economy system

The objective of the Pteridum project was to analyze the economic viability of controlling common fern populations (Pteridium aquilinum) in a circular economy system adapted to climate change in the Cantabrian Mountains, and reducing forest fires caused or favored by their presence by controlling their expansion in an environmentally respectful way.

Adaptation, restoration and creation of habitats for amphibians threatened by climate change in the Montes de Valsaín mountain range, Segovia

The project "Adaptation, restoration and habitat creation for amphibians threatened by climate change in the Valsaín Forestry, Segovia" was initiated with the aim of counteracting the global decline of amphibians, which are currently the most threatened group of vertebrates in the world. This project was specially designed to respond to the decline of more than a third of amphibian species, which are under some degree of threat due to habitat destruction, adverse climate change, emerging diseases, and the disappearance of critical breeding sites.