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