The project seeks to preserve and improve the biodiversity of the 132,878 hectares of the Natura 2000 areas Campo de Azaba and Campo de Argañán, both in Salamanca, and Malcata, in Portugal.

The project seeks to preserve and improve the biodiversity of the 132,878 hectares of the Natura 2000 areas Campo de Azaba and Campo de Argañán, both in Salamanca, and Malcata, in Portugal.

These spaces are made up of mature Mediterranean forests, often pastures, rocky cliffs, wooded pastures, extensive crops, river ecosystems and mid-mountain mountain ranges covered with oak groves and scrub areas, all interspersed between fenced and intensely used private farms.

The improvement is intended to be achieved through the intervention, in a reserve area of 522 hectares, from the central location to the large space, in which an active integral management is proposed in favor of the species with greater dispersal efficiency (birds, insects and plants), given that one of the main problems of the space is the scarcity of transverse permeability. because it is mostly made up of fenced private properties used by pruning, pasture, hunting, ploughing or montaneras, so its state of conservation is not good.

The project has numerous actions that have been proposed in three phases over the 42 months of duration, and which have been beneficiaries in the Biodiversity Foundation’s Calls for Grants in 2009 (phase I), 2010 (phase II) and 2011 (phase III).