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Spanish Refuge for Europe's Birds of Prey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg  and
Christiane Meyburg
Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg
Affiliation:
Freie University Berlin, Klinikum Westend, 1 Berlin 19, Spandauer Damm 130.
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Abstract

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In western Spain, especially in Extremadura, the typical Mediterranean flora and fauna are more abundant, both in species and numbers, than almost anywhere else in the Mediterranean region. For Europe’s birds of prey it is a key area. But all, especially the birds of prey, are gravely threatened, despite excellent protection laws, by reafforestation (with eucalyptus and pines) and industrial development destroying their habitats. The authors, who spent a total of ten months between 1970 and 1977 studying the birds of prey in the region, stress the urgent need to protect at least some of this superb country, which includes primeval cork oak forests and natural vegetation undisturbed by man.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , November 1978 , pp. 337 - 342
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1978

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