La gestione della Rete Natura 2000 in Aragona

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1 CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE La gestione di Rete Natura 2000: esperienze e confronto novembre 2008 Genova, Italia La gestione della Rete Natura 2000 in Aragona Jesús A. Insausti International Centre for Water and Environment Government of Aragon

2 Indice NATURA 2000 NETWORK IN ARAGON MANAGEMENT LEGAL MEASURES OTHER MANAGEMANET TOOLS CONNECTIVITY MONITORING, STUDIES AND PUBLICATIONS

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4 Creation process of the Red Natura 2000 network, SPA: 1988: : : : : 45 17,7% of the total surface of Aragon

5 Creation process of the Red Natura 2000 network : SCI (Sites of Community Importance) 1997: : : : : 157 Nº SCI Surface (ha) % Region Alpine ,6 Medit ,4 TOTAL ,9

6 The Red Natura 2000 network in Aragon Nº Surface (ha) % Region SPA ,7 SCI ,9 RN ,4

7 Pyrenees mountains Forests Cliffs Bearded vulture Capercaillie Brown bear

8 Mediterranean forest areas Holm and gall oak forests Black pine forests Rocky habitats Woodlands

9 Steppes

10 Humid areas Salt marshes Halophytic vegetation Riparian forests Tamarix forests

11 MANAGEMENT 9 PLANS FOR THE ORGANISATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES (PONR): 7 approved: Decree 148/2005, Posets-Maladeta Natural Park. Decree 51/2006, los Valles, Fago, Aísa y Borau. Decree 164/1997, La Sierra y Cañones de Guara Park. Decree 73/1998, Region of El Moncayo and the declaration of Moncayo Park. Decree 89/2007, Sotos y Galachos del río Ebro (Zaragoza-Escatrón Stretch). Decree 85/2006, Complejo Lagunar de las Saladas de Chiprana. Decree 42/2006, Laguna de -Gallocanta. 2 under way: Decree 155/1997, on the start of PONR for the Sierras de Mongay, Sabinós and Estanques de Estaña. Decree 233/1999, on the start of PONR for the Sierra de Gúdar.

12 MANAGEMENT 3 PLANS FOR USE AND MANAGEMENT (PAM) approved: Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. Moncayo Natural Park. Pinares de Rodeno Protected Landscape.

13 PLANS FOR THE ORGANISATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES (PONR) AND PLANS FOR USE AND MANAGEMENT (PAM)

14 RECOVERY PLANS FOR SPECIES: 8 Decree 187/2005, Margaritifera Auricularia. Decree 184/1994 and 45/2003, Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus). Decree 109/2000, Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni). Decree 127/2006, White-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes). Decree 239/1994, Borderea Chouardii Decree 234/2004, Yellow lady's slipper (Cypripedium calceolus ) Decree 92/2003, Vella psudocytisus subsp. Pauii Decree 93/2003, Kascheninnikovia ceratoides

15 RECOVERY PLANS

16 RECOVERY PLANS

17 GENERAL HABITAT MANAGEMENT PLANS: Decree 207/2005, which regulates the authorization of the installation and use of feeding areas with some dead animals for necrophagous birds of prey, and establishes a network of feeding areas in Aragon. Decree 34/2005, laying down the technical standards for the electrical air installations in order to protect bird fauna. Order of 8th of May 2007, which adopted the Action Plan for the eradication of illegal use of poisons in the environment of Aragon. OTHER PLANS: Law 15/2006, of 28th of December, on Mountains of Aragon: the Catalogue of Mountains of Public Use, publicly owned, that they must be declared special land that may not be built on (Art 19). Since 1994, three periods of programming in which the Government of Aragon established a set of agro-environmental measures.

18 ARAGON GOVERNMENT'S STRATEGY FOR THE ADAPTATION OF THE HIGHTENSION ELECTRICITY LINES NETWORK THAT ENDANGER BIRDLIFE Estudio de afecciones en ZEPAS: inventario, prospecciones y tasas de siniestralidad. Correction proposals for anticollision and anti-electroshock were identified and written for 197 high power lines and km dangerous for birds, including the remodeling of electricity pylons and the signaling of gaps, with a planned investment of 4,643,052.

19 ARAGON GOVERNMENT'S STRATEGY FOR THE ADAPTATION OF THE HIGHTENSION ELECTRICITY LINES NETWORK THAT ENDANGER BIRDLIFE Collaboration agreement with E.R.Z.-ENDESA to progressively improve their facilities ( ), with an anual budget of , of which 60 % has been financed by ENDESA, and with the support of a LIFE project.

20 LIFE PROJECTS ADECUACIÓN DE TENDIDOS ELÉCTRICOS EN LAS Z.E.P.A. DE ARAGÓN (ESPAÑA) - LIFE04NAT/E/0034 CONSERVACIÓN DE MARGARITIFERA AURICULARIA EN ARAGÓN (ESPAÑA) LIFE04NAT/E/0033 CONSERVATION OF THREATENED VERTEBRATES IN THE PYRENEES - ARAGON - LIFE95 NAT/E/ RECOVERY PLAN OF THE BEARDED VULTURE IN THE NORTHEASTERN OF SPAIN - LIFE98 NAT/E/ CONSERVATION OF THIRTEEN ENDANGERED PLANT SPECIES IN ARAGON (SPAIN) - LIFE96 NAT/E/ CONSERVATION OF FALCO NAUMANNI NESTING HABITAT IN ARAGON LIFE00 NAT/E/ CONSERVATION PLAN OF BONELLI S EAGLE (HIERAAETUS FASCIATUS) IN THE SIERRA DE GUARA (ARAGON) LIFE97 NAT/E/004180

21 WILDLIFE RECOVERY AND BREEDING CENTERS

22 Connectivity: livestock trails

23 MONITORING, STUDIES AND PUBLICATIONS

24 Atlas de la Flora de Aragón Convenio de colaboración entre el Dpto. de Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Aragón y el Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología del CSIC 3714 especies (half of the spanish flora and a quarter of the european) Taraxacum officinale

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