Conservation areas of Portugal
- Conservation areas of Portugal
Portugal's conservation areas are divided into five categories: One national park ("Parque Nacional"), 12 natural parks ("Parque Natural"), 9 natural reserves ("Reserva Natural"), 5 natural monuments ("Monumento Natural"), and 7 protected landscapes ("Paisagem Protegida").
The national park, Peneda-Gerês National Park (mostly known has Gerês) is located in the extreme north of Portugal. The park has a wide variety of oaken and mixed forests, with rare habitats, groves, peat bogs, and diverse bushes. The Golden Eagle, the Eagle Owl, the Honey Buzzard, and the Whinchat are some of the 147 Portuguese birds that can be found in Gerês. Along with the Pine Marten, the Stoat, the Wolf, the brown bear, the wild goat, the adders ("Vipera latastei" and "Vipera seoanei") and a growing number of squirrels. The Serra da Estrela Natural Park in central Portugal, with its extensive valleys and turf soils, and the Arrábida Natural Park in the Setúbal Peninsula with its Mediterranean character and the sand varieties of its beaches unveil the ecological variety of Portugal.The Natural Park of Madeira protects a very rare type of subtropical rainforest, unique in Europe called « the laurissilva».Several places in portugal ( not only national parks,natural parks, reserves or protected landscapes) are protected because of the CE programme called Rede Natura. With this many micro and macro habitats are protected by the law.
The Tapada Nacional de Mafra is conspicuous, due to its rich flora and fauna. The Tapada was created in the reign of King John V for royal delight, in an area of 8 km² with stags, boars, foxes, rapine birds and several other species. Today, the Tapada is classified as an area of national hunting ("Zona de Caça Nacional").
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*Forests of the Iberian Peninsula
*Quercus (association)
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