Objective
Maintaining and restoring the area planted in alfalfa is the most effective method for the conservation of the great bustard in the Villafáfila SPA, and is therefore the goal of this LIFE project. The main action is purchasing the most suitable land in order to apply an agricultural management scheme which includes sowing a minimum surface area of alfalfa in the zones where the bustards preferably dwell. These measures supplement the Steppe Cereals Programme being implemented in this district. To involve the local population in the project, a newsletter will be distributed in the villages and in the SPA Reserve Interpretation Centre, while information meetings will be organized in the local town halls.
The great bustard is an emblem of the European steppes. The highest density of great bustards in the world is found in the Castilla y León region and especially in the Villafáfila Special Protection Area for Birds. The population of this nucleus is 2,165 individuals, which represents approximately 12% of the total world population. In Villafáfila, the great bustard finds an optimum habitat in the pseudo-steppe ecosystem characterized by a landscape of rolling hills with gentle slopes and wide horizons, where extensive cultivation, on which the species depends for its food supply, reigns supreme. More towards the interior of the SPA, a saline wetland complex included on the Ramsar list, is found.
The threats currently faced by the bustards are mainly due to changes in the agricultural practices in the district. By replacing traditional cultivation by irrigation, which reduces the number of plots planted in alfalfa, a crop which the bustard prefers, in particular when it is raising chicks, these changes are destroying its habitat.
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47071 Valladolid
Spain
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