jueves, 11 de marzo de 2010

MONFRAGÜE AND THE FIO

  • monfragüe:
DESCRIPTION AND LOCATION

Monfragüe National Park covers an area of 18.396 hectares and is located in northern Cáceres, near Plasencia, Cáceres and Trujillo , and covers the rivers Tajo and Tiétar.

It’s center is al Villareal de San Carlos.


Monfragüe is considered as the main refuge of the Mediterranean fauna. could be divided into four zones:
Zone reserv
es: are the areas with the highest biological quality.
Restrict
ed use areas: the medium has so much quality but you can make limited use.

Moderate use areas: they can make educational and recreational activities.

Special use zones: they are of lower quality and are for public use.





FLORA AND FAUNA

Monfragüe is a very important park due to its flora and fauna


ANIMALS

Monfragüe has a fauna of over 280 species of vertebrates.

·birds: among them are: the Imperial Eagle, the booted eagle, Black Vulture, the Black Stork, Griffon Vulture, the Eagle Owl and the Egyptian.

·mammals: the Iberian lynx, otter, bobcat, weasel …

·Fish: Catfish, Carp, Boga River, Calandín, Eel, Tench and Camus.




VEGETATION
Monfragüe vegetation is native, with the exception of eucalyptus. The major areas are: oak, cork oak, rockrose, heather, arbutus, juniper…

Monfragüe has two sides: sunny and shady. In the shade is the primeval forest (cork oak). On the sunny side vegetation is adapted to drought (holm oak..)




THE TOURISTIC IMPLICATIONS OF MONFRAGÜE AND THE FIO

Monfragüe is a unique emplacement with great natural beauty because of their vegetation is an ideal place that makes this park one of the major areas of birds concentration where there is also easy to spot them. For this reason, it´s necessary to develop sustainable and respectful tourism that allow to obtain development and economic benefits to the area and that isn´t harmful to this area in order to achieve a balance between exploitation of park as a tourist area and its preservation as a unique place.
An example of this is the FIO, which tries to promote a ornithological tourism will not affect the natural environment.


OUR VISIT TO MONFRAGÜE

The days 26,27 and 28 of February kinds of tourism and tourism ade-visited national park Monfragüe.
We went for the submission of our English teacher. He explained that this weekend is going to hold an international fair of ornithology and we could serve as experience in the tourism sector.
Divide the class into groups and give them out within three days.

The first day we were lucky because we saw species difficult to see and w
e did not rained, the park is really nice and we really enjoyed the experience.
Fellow of the second day were less fortunate because the weather did not accompany stan and many tents were blown because of the strong gusts of wind
The last day the companions who were the international trade fair had a great time and took an impression of the event

Overall the tour was very entertaining and we learned a little bit of ornithological tourism.



FAIR OF TOURISM

The 26th of February, we went to Villareal de San Carlos to visit a ornithological fair.

There, we could see many stands where people put all that they know in order to show us.

We arrived there at ten o’clock, more or less, and we stay in the village un

til we went Monfragüe.

About six, we came back to Cáceres.

In conclusion, I think that the fair is a very good experience or opportunity to the tourism.




MY EXPERIENCE IN THE STAND

I think an experience like going to represent your school in an international fair is very rewarding for anyone. I think it was good for me and also helped to improve my training.

The day was quite good, people are interested in summer courses and the degrees offered.

In addition, we gave no time to do a short tour and see the other stand. I recommend people to experience it is something different and that may not offer your another chance.




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