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Monfragüe: a conservation success in Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Paul R. Bangs
Paul R. Bangs
Affiliation:
School of Management Studies and Languages, Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education, Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe, Bucks, UK.
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Abstract

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In 1978, Bernd-Ulrich and Christiane Meyburg reported in Oryx the efforts to safeguard a very special area of Extremadura in Western Spain. On 4 April 1979, 17,582 hectares was designated as a Parque Natural (a nature park or reserve) by the Government. Perhaps readers of the Meyburgs' article, especially those who responded to its appeal for moral and financial support, would hail this as a great success for conservation in Spain: but there is much more to the story than that …

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 1985 , pp. 140 - 145
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1985

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