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From
beginnings of the month of March the resolution of the
Government of the Generalitat on the designation of the areas
included in the Natura 2000 Network can be found in the Diari
Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya number 4337. This
proposal arrives with more from a year of delay, reason by which
the European Union sanctioned the Government of Catalonia. Its
appearance has not been very well received, peculiarly nor on
the part of the agrarian sector that thinks that it can
interfere with the agricultural and cattle activities, nor
either from the naturalistic and ecological world that considers
a proposal of minimums.
The
refusal that usually arouses the Natura 2000 Network in the
rural world, specially in determined regions of Lleida province,
is product of a deficient informative strategy on the part of
the responsible administrations to explain the project to the
citizenship. That causes the existence of a total ignorance of
the possibilities that offers this legal figure. The inclusion
of an area in the Natura 2000 Network does not suppose the loss
of the ownership of the lands and in many cases promotes
agrarian, cattle, forest activities and a regulated hunting
practice. In addition it allows to obtain diverse financing
funds of the European Union to make compatible the conservation
of the biodiversity with a sustainable rural development,
beneficial for the population. These positive aspects have been
demonstrated in other Autonomous Communities where for years
plans of management and development in spaces SAC or SPA have
been applied. For more general information on the Natura 2000
Network and real examples of its application in the management
you can consult the Web
http://www.natura2000benefits.org.
The
distribution area of the Bonelli’s Eagle, as specially
threatened species in the European Union, has been one of the
main parameters used at the time of designating the SPAs of the
scope of the Mediterranean habitats of Catalonia. From the Equip
de Biologia de la Conservació – Áliga Perdiguera we have
detected important deficits in the SPAs designated, as much in
the document approved by the Executive Council as in the new
proposal of extension. In which it concerns the Bonelli’s
eagle, the proposed SPAs has been limited to include the
protected areas already existing, including of peripheral way
the nests, but leaving outside most of its hunting areas. That
causes that rarely sufficient space of its territories is
included to guarantee that the conservation of the eagles is
absolutely viable.
From
three
years ago the Equip de Biologia de la Conservació – Ŕliga
Perdiguera is making the radiotracking of several pairs of
Bonelli’s eagle in the provinces of Barcelona and Tarragona.
The collected data have allowed to obtain much information about
the extension of the territories, the areas and types of
habitats that the eagles select. This information has been given
to the administrations to be used for the conservation of the
eagles. Unfortunately it has been possible to verify that has
not been considered in the delimitation of the SPAs for the
Natura 2000 Network.
For
more information on the proposal of Catalonia’s Natura 2000
Network you can consult the following Webs:
http://mediambient.gencat.net/cat/el_departament/sala_de_premsa/notes/NP_xarxa_natura_2000.jsp
http://mediambient.gencat.net/cat/ciutadans/participacio_publica/ampliacio_natura-2000.jsp
The
maps that can be unloaded indicate the spaces of extension and
modification but the SPAs
approved last March are not included (Diari Oficial de la
Generalitat de Catalunya 4337). Anybody who wants to present
allegations still has time until the 25th of April.
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