Ecological Corridor Network Project

The project was developed in 2005 and responds to the need to conserve and restore the functional connection between the natural spaces possessing wild species whose diminished populations tend to be isolated. Based on the available information of the geographical elements with an impact on the study problem (distribution of fauna, vegetation, land uses, hydrographic network, network of roads and population centers, network of protected natural spaces, etc.), a spatial and functional analysis of the landscape of the ACE is carried out in order to establish a physical Network of Ecological Corridors that guarantee the connectivity or permeability of the landscape for the specialized fauna species affected by the fragmentation of their habitats and populations. The structure of the Ecological Corridors Network of the C.A.E. is configured around the core-spaces to be connected. The corridors and link areas are the connecting elements, while the buffer areas are located surrounding both the areas to be linked and the connector elements cited. The sections of the river network not included in these four figures, and which for their connecting interest must be part of the structure of the Corridor Network, completes the spatial scope of it. Finally, ecological restoration areas constitute degraded enclaves within the above elements.