From the Biodiversity Foundation we support different projects that are developed in our National Parks.

The EUROPARC Federation promotes once again the celebration of the European Parks Day, which has taken place every May 24 since 1999. This event commemorates the declaration of the first national parks in Europe, specifically in Sweden in 1909. This year it is promoted under the slogan “Nature, our treasure”, a call to reconnect with nature, to highlight the natural treasures that make parks such special spaces.

From the Biodiversity Foundation we support different projects that are developed in our National Parks, the most prestigious protection figure in our country, our natural treasures. Since 2005 we have allocated almost 9 million euros to more than 60 projects, of which eight are currently underway.

Thus, the Institute of Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA) is developing the QuMATURE project to analyse the functional, genetic, structural and compositional changes in mature Mediterranean Quercus forests in the Monfragüe and Cabañeros national parks, considering the effects of ageing and the absence of management on the reproductive potential and viability of progeny. forest dynamics and vulnerability to climate change.

For its part, the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME) promotes improving the knowledge necessary for the management of the Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park in the search for sustainable ecological restoration to recover the usual biological diversity of the park, since it currently has an anomalous biodiversity, with a low population of native herbivorous waterbirds and a high population of invasive exotic fish.

The Centre for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMAT) is studying the risk induced by air pollution in the conservation of the most representative and vulnerable species of the subalpine pasture communities of the Iberian peaks, within a framework of global change, in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park.

In the Atlantic Islands Maritime-Terrestrial National Park we collaborate with different entities in several projects framed in the Pleamar Programme, co-financed by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF). The Colexio Oficial de Biólogos de Galicia develops awareness-raising actions focused on marine litter and the conservation of biodiversity and marine ecosystems. The Association for Research on Plastic and Related Materials (AIMPLAS) collects, recycles and obtains recycled products from the plastic fraction of marine litter. In addition, the University of Vigo studies the abundance and ecological status of macroalgae with the aim of contributing to the sustainable management of marine protected areas with fishing activity and the monitoring and maintenance of marine biodiversity, through the development of new methodologies that allow the mapping of macroalgae and the evaluation of their physiological and conservation status.

In the vicinity of the Doñana National Park, the University of Cadiz is working, also within the framework of the High Tide Programme, on strategies to develop more environmentally sustainable fisheries in the Gulf of Cadiz SPA.

Finally, in the Maritime-Terrestrial National Park of the Cabrera Archipelago , SEO/Birdlife is developing a project aimed at integrating the fishing sector in the future management of marine SPAs in the Spanish Mediterranean.