Montaña Palentina Natural Park
protected area in Spain
Montaña Palentina Natural Park (Spanish: Parque natural de la Montaña Palentina) is a natural park in the north of the province of Palencia in Castile and León, Spain.
The park was declared in 2000 with the name "Fuentes Carrionas and Fuente Cobre-Montaña Palentina".
The original name of the park refers to:
the Fuentes Carrionas sub-range of the Cantabrian Mountains (source of the river Carrión)
Fuente Cobre (the traditional source of the river Pisuerga).
It is one of a number of protected areas in the Cantabrian Mountains. From an ecological point of view, most of the park is within the Atlantic biogeographical region, but it is on the edge of that region and 4% of the area is classed as Mediterranean.
Fauna
In 1998 the natural park was proposed as a Site of Community Importance. In 2000 It was designated a Special Protection Area (SPA) for bird-life (reference number ES4140011) under the European Union's Birds Directive. In 2015 it was designated a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) under the Habitats Directive.
Birds
The Cantabrian Capercaillie became extinct in the natural park at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Since 2010 the European Union's LIFE programme has supported a recovery plan for this subspecies, "Urgent measures scheme for the conservation of the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus cantabricus) and its habitat in the Cantabrian mountains".
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