2023-05-24 07:13:55
Each May 24 is the European Day of Natural Parks in commemoration of the first natural parks declared in the old continent. Sweden was the first country in Europe in which a natural area obtained the denomination of natural park, this happened in the year 1909.
The Day of the Natural Parks was established in 1999 by the EUROPARC Federationan organization made up of 39 European countries and created in 1973, which brings together institutions dedicated to the conservation of protected natural areas and the entire natural environment.
The organization EUROPARC-Spain was created in 1993 and, since then, it has been the main forum for protected areas in Spain. In this organization, proposals for improvements to the country’s natural areas are discussed and prepared.
EUROPARC-Spain is in charge of organizing activities related to ecology and protected natural spaces every year to celebrate the European Day of Natural Parks.
And parque natural It is all that protected space made up of a surface of land or water that presents special biological and landscape characteristics, which deserve to be protected and are of an autonomous or local scope. In Spain, there is also the denomination of National ParkThese national parks are natural parks that, due to their natural conditions, must be conserved and managed at the national level.
Throughout the entire territory, there are 108 natural parks y 16 national parks. Likewise, the Doñana National Park and the Sierra Nevada National Park are part of the Green List of the Union for the Conservation of Nature, an international organization that evaluates the best preserved natural spaces on the planet. Besides, the UNESCO It declared the Doñana National Park a World Heritage Site and the Teide National Park a World Heritage Site.
Other national parks that stand out in Spain are the Picos de Europa National Park, the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park, the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park, the Monfragüe, the Cabañeros National Park, the Timanfaya National Park, the Caldera de Taburiente National Park, the Garajonay National Park, the Cabrera Archipelago Maritime-Terrestrial National Park and the Atlantic Islands Maritime-Terrestrial National Park from Galicia.
On this European Day of Natural Parks, the aim is to value the importance of nature and its conservation.
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