Casével, Portugal: There is joy and sadness in seeing sparrows in such abundance outside the UKIn Baixo Alentejo province, there is a stretch of near-treeless undulating country centred roughly on the town of Castro Verde. It is sheep-grazed land, historically rotated on a four-year fallow cycle with a cereal crop. This agricultural regime has created a habitat known technically as pseudo-steppe (it's not true steppe, but created by deforestation from the Roman period onwards).Today, 86,000 hectares of it sit within a special protection area, almost equal in size to the landholdings of all the UK's wildlife trusts. Its headlines usually involve its most glamorous species - Iberian lynx, Iberian imperial eagle and great and little bustards - not just rare in Iberia, but some of the rarest animals on Earth. Continue reading...
Country diary: One eagle and 500 sparrows - I must be on holiday
7. prosinece 2021 9:46
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/07/country-diary-one-eagle-and-500-sparrows-i-must-be-on-holiday
Zdroj: The Guardian