Temática: Protected Areas

PSE (Payments for Ecosystem Services)

They are voluntary transactions conditioned on the provision of well-defined ecosystem services between at least one provider and one user, based on the "beneficiary pays" principle.

MaB Program

The Man and the Biosphere Program promotes interdisciplinary research in the natural and social sciences to better understand the environment (including climate change) and provides training in natural resource management, particularly on the conservation and sustainable and rational use of biological and cultural diversity.

Protected Landscapes

1. These are specific places in the natural environment that, due to their aesthetic and cultural values, deserve special protection. 2. Parts of the territory that the competent authorities, through applicable planning regulations, deem worthy of special protection due to their natural, aesthetic, and cultural values, and in accordance with the Landscape Convention of the Council of Europe.

Park

They are natural areas, little transformed by human exploitation or occupation, which, due to the beauty of their landscapes, the representativeness of their ecosystems, or the uniqueness of their flora, fauna, or geomorphological formations, possess ecological, aesthetic, educational, and scientific values whose conservation deserves preferential attention.

National Park

1. These are extensive natural or near-natural areas established to protect large-scale ecological processes, along with the complement of species and ecosystems characteristic of the area, which also provide the basis for environmentally and culturally compatible spiritual, scientific, educational, recreational, and visitor opportunities. 2. Natural space of high ecological value and […]

Heritage

It refers to the set of inherited assets that are lived in the present and that must be protected and preserved, to be passed on to future generations.

Cultural heritage

Cultural heritage includes: 1. Monuments: architectural works, monumental sculptures or paintings, elements or structures of an archaeological nature, inscriptions, caves and groups of elements, which have outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science, 2. Sites: groups of isolated buildings […]

World Heritage

It is made up of assets or sites that possess exceptional universal value, that is, they have extraordinary cultural or natural importance, transcend borders, and have special significance within the history of humanity.

Natural heritage

1. The following are considered “natural heritage”: • Natural monuments consisting of physical and biological formations or groups of such formations that have outstanding universal value from an aesthetic or scientific point of view, • Geological and physiographic formations and strictly delimited areas that constitute the habitat of threatened species, both animal […]

Natural Monuments

1. These are spaces or elements of nature consisting primarily of formations of notable singularity, rarity, or beauty, which deserve special protection. 2. Geological formations, paleontological sites, and other geological features that possess special interest due to their singularity or importance will also be considered Natural Monuments.