• Valerie Braun – Margreth Keiler – Günter Köck (Eds.)

eco.mont 16 No. 2

Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management

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Valerie Braun
is Managing Editor of eco.mont and Project Manager of several projects at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

Margreth Keiler
is Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

Günter Köck
is Director of the National Research Programmes at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

ISSN 2073-106X Print Edition
ISSN 2073-1558 Online Edition

ISBN 978-3-7001-9702-7 Online Edition

Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management 16/2 
01/2024  online edition
Die print-Edition erscheint in der innsbruck university press

License: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

“eco.mont – Journal of Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management” was founded as a joint initiative of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas (ALPARC), the International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps (ISCAR), the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Innsbruck. “eco.mont” offers a platform specifically for scientists and practitioners working in and on protected mountain areas in Europe and overseas. Target audiences of the journal are scientists from all related disciplines, managers of protected areas and an interested public including practitioners, visitors, teachers, etc.“eco.mont” is available by open access under CC BY-NC-ND-Licence from the Austrian Academy Press and in a printed version from Innsbruck University Press. Alpine protected areas play a key role in biodiversity conservation, but also in monitoring species and habitats. Since its first issue, eco.mont has published articles on long-term monitoring programmes in different areas of the Alps.

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“The local population is not aware” of nature conservation: implementing and managing the Natura 2000 network in a mountainous area of Galicia, Spain

    Manuel Rodríguez Rodríguez, Valerià Paül

Eco.mont Vol. 16 Nr. 2, pp. 38-46, 2024/06/24

Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management

doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-16-2s38

doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-16-2s38


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doi:10.1553/eco.mont-16-2s38

Abstract

The Natura 2000 Network (N2000N) is the main conservation instrument of the Eu-ropean Union. Its implementation for the whole EU territory in the last 30 years has largely been carried out top-down, combining the local level poorly. The Queixa and San Mamede mountain ranges, located in south-eastern Galicia, have been pro-posed as a single natural park since at least the 1970s, although political inactivity and lack of interest in conservation by the local population have made this difficult to achieve. However, most of this mountain area has been designated as N2000N ter-ritory. This article demonstrates that the designation took place in a non-transparent manner and without public participation. As a consequence, our analysis questions the legitimacy of the Galician N2000N areas. The article addresses N2000N man-agement and academic criticism in this respect. Finally, we recommend involvement of the local population in the future, as the only way to guarantee effective conserva-tion and improve perceptions of the N2000N at local level. The analysis presented here is relevant for the future of this and other mountainous areas belonging to the network.

Keywords: protected natural areas, nature conservation, Natura 2000 Network, mountain, local participation