Redes Natural Park

The Redes Natural Park is placed at Pilona in the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain. Its overall vicinity is 377.36 km² a 145.70 sq. mi, break up among municipalities: Caso 307.94 km2 and Sobrescobio 69.42 km². It become d a herbal park in 1996. In September 2001, the park was blanketed through Unesco in the global network of Biosphere reserves. Redes is one a group of biosphere reserves within the Cantabrian Mountains, which incorporates Picos de Europa National Park and Somiedo Natural Park. Since 2007 there has been dialogue of creating a unmarried high-quality-reserve known as Gran Cantabrica to protect the mountain eco-device. This integration is expected to gain animals inclusive of the Cantabrian brown endure which have been adversely tormented by habitat fragmentation.

Since 2003 Redes has been blanketed as a Special Protection Area for birds Bird-existence includes the Cantabrian Capercaillie, a member of the grouse own family that's depending on large tracts of mature forest. The subspecies has been in decline, in part related to a decline within the first-rate of its habitat. A healing plan has been in operation, funded with the aid of the LIFE Programme, that is because of end in 2016. The recuperation plan operates throughout 16 SPAs, consisting of Redes. There has been work to improve the birds' habitat and to reintroduce them to areas in which it seems they've come to be extinct. Reintrodutions have involved a facility for raising capercaillies in captivity at Sobrescobio.