AVOID FIRES AND SAVE LIVES.
Apr 8, 2010 Spain, Fires, Mountain, Nature, Landscapes, Routes, Hiking, Tourism, Tourism, Natural Tourism
Most of you are longing for summer to arrive: sun, beach, mountains, hillwalking…some of many activities you can enjoy in the outdoors during the summer season.
This is all very nice, but unfortunately…good weather also brings with it catastrophes: fires. Just only last year, 2009 was the worst year of the decade during which 70,000 hectares were burnt down, at a cost of 385 million Euros to which we have to add the costs of putting the fire out and preventing it. (Data source: WWF).
Between us all we could reduce these figures; we just have to make a bit of an effort and follow advice such as: don’t throw cigarette ends away in the undergrowth while in the countryside, don’t leave rubbish behind, don’t throw away glass while in the countryside… (more advice from Spain’s emergency service 112).
Tags: Animals Danger Extinction, Fire, Forest Fire, Fires, Forest Fires, Mountain, Mount, Natural Monument, Nature, Landscape, Routes, Hiking, Tourism, Active Tourism, Natural Tourism, Rural Tourism
NATURE: “THE BROWN BEAR”
Jan 27, 2010 Asturias, Castilla y León, Nature, Landscapes, Tourism, Natural Tourism
The brown bear used to exist practically in all the continents of Europe, Asia and a large part of west North America. Unfortunately, as the centuries past, the presence of the brown bear has reduced, although it continues to exist in a sufficiently extensive area today.
The brown bear lives in a variety of habitats, from semi-desert cold climates to coastal areas or even the Arctic tundra. But its habitat par excellence is the forest and it is one of the most common mammals to be found in Siberian or Scandinavian taiga conifer forests, or in mixed-type forests in eastern Europe and the Pyrenees, or in deciduous beech, oak and birch forests along the Cantabrian Chain. The few bear populations that exist in Western Europe are found in the highest mountain massifs where human presence is slight.
Tags: Animal, Animals, Animals Danger Extinction, Asturias, Cantabrian Chain, Cantabrian Chain Fauna, Nature, Bear, Brown Bear, Pirineos, Tourism, Natural Tourism