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The UNESCO has declared that both Fuerteventura as Gerês-Xurés are biosphere reserves. Both sites of outstanding natural beauty now have legal protection towards the conservation of biodiversity.

UNESCO has designated as "biosphere reserve" some 533 natural areas. 40 of them are located in Spain. This international corporation has recently decided to incorporate into your list 22 other sites, including two Spanish sites.

Fuerteventura in the archipelago of the Canaries is one of the sites selected. Here coexist diverse ecosystems and a wide variety of fauna and flora. Fuerteventura depends exclusively on tourism and this is also one reason why the UNESCO wants to collaborate in the conservation of original natural conditions.

The other sites selected by UNESCO

in Spain is the Gerês-Xurés park just on the border between Spain and Portugal. In the forests preserved by this park is home to many native species. The environment has unique conditions for the combination of a Mediterranean climate with Atlantic one more.

Gerês-Xurés receives input from both countries for their maintenance and preservation, and now has the protection of UNESCO.

The aim of the new additions made by UNESCO to preserve the natural conditions of these sites and have remained so far. Climate change is a planetary level, and the consequences of human action in nature.