The government has concluded the process of declaring the Zona Special de Conservação (ZEC) of the Natural Park Douro International (PNDI), which includes four regional governments and aims to protect habitats and species, according to a decree published this fourth day (28) in the Diário da República.
As ZEC saw “prevent deterioration of habitat types and species habitats, as well as disturbance occurring to species”, in this case not PNDI.
The ZEC Douro Internacional, which will enter into force in the fifth quarter, will benefit from a legal regime for the protection of habitats, granting special protection, specifically aimed at maintaining or restoring the conservation status favoring the types of natural or planted habitats and populations of wild species in a significant area in the area, including the ecological status of the habitats used for these species.
Prepare a document published for the National Association of Municipalities and Authorities of Almeida, Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo and Vila Nova de Foz Côa, not in the District of Guarda, and Freixo de Espada à Cinta, Miranda do Douro, Mogadouro and Torre de Moncorvo, not in the District of Bragança.
ZEC Douro Internacional aims to contribute to the maintenance or restoration of a favorable conservation status in the Mediterranean biogeographic area of the habitat types and species defined in its management plan.
No one who respects the management measures of ZEC Douro Internacional is prohibited from activities or activities only in rural areas, such as the introduction into nature and the recovery of exotic species from plants and animals included in the National List of Invasive Species, or the depot or discharge of industrial or domestic waste water into waters, not only or not only, without adequate treatment or in a manner susceptible to negative environmental effects between areas.
At 86,834.82 hectares, the PNDI covers an area adjacent to the Douro River, where the vegetation is dominated by blueberry (Quercus rotundifolia, locally grown Carrasco), leading to the presence of juniper (Juniperus oxycedrus), alba (Q. suber) and manchas de carvalho-pyrenalica forests..
The Douro International Area is a fundamental area for the protection of birds, one of the most important areas in the national and Iberian context.
O destaque go para as We have rock birds that nest in rocky areas such as the Egyptian abutre (Neophron percnopterus) and the Bonelli’s eagle (Striped eagle) that we shelter and breed here.
This ZEC is part of a group of 62 areas of Portugal classified as Sites of Public Interest (SCI) that are included in the Natura 2000 framework, and this ZEC designation process was necessary to carry out the transposition from the Habitats Directive from the União Europeia to the national legal system.
The Habitats Directive sees “ensuring the protection of habitat types and species of flora and fauna”, referring to the fact that, for this purpose, Member States must proceed to “classify as ZEC Community import sites (SICs) designated by the European Commission through a regulatory act which continues to define and classify areas of significant occurrence of identified habitat types and species”.
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