Various species of flora and fauna, including three birds – capercaillie (tetrao urogallus), little bud (tetrax tetrax) and Dupont’s lark or ricoti pig (Chersophilus duponti)-, will replace the existing «vulnerable» classification and It will continue to inflate the “endangered”highlights the serious situation in which they find themselves.
This is set out in the draft mandate by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Control (Miteco) to replace the Special Conservation Wild Species List and the Spanish Endangered Species Catalogue.
in relation to capersThe previous status of the two existing populations in Spain is changed, Cantabrian and Pyrenean, which will now be placed in the same threat categoryAccording to the data of the Red Book of the birds of Spain, it is “at the maximum risk of disappearance”, since only about 400 copies remain.
The future of the Cantabrian Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus cantabricusNicolás López-Jiménez, doctor of biology, ecologist and Asturias SEO/BirdLife delegate, says it looks “too black”, already declared endangered in 2018. “There is no solution, it is extinct. The condition of the species is extremely dangerous, but we must try to save it until the end,” says Adrián Vigil, head of the Ornithological Coordinator of Asturias and protector of the principality’s natural environment.
The impact of human activities, infrastructure, forest fires and habitat fragmentation are the main causes of the species decline. These are the factors added to inbreeding, the low birth rate and the high mortality rate of chickens, ie the deaths recorded each year are no longer covered.
attribution ricotta larktheir populations live “Strong regression trends” due to changes in land use and abandonment of marginal farmlands.
The results of a recent study show an overall decrease of 41.4% from 2004 to 2015; this translates to an annual average decline of 3.9% for the entire Hispanic population of ricoti skylark.
This is of concern in Andalusia and Castilla y León, where the species has declined by 68.5% and 58.4% respectively over the last 10 years; this equates to an average annual decrease of 10.9% and 8.4%, respectively.
On the other hand, the fall of the bustard (tetrax tetrax) is the result of intensive and industrial farming systems and all changes made in grasslands, dry herbaceous plants. Many intensive agricultural practices have brought with them enormous habitat loss. By replacing borders, natural hedges and weeds of crop fields and planting huge plains without any biodiversity, this species sees its natural habitat disappearing.
The Mar Menor asparagus (Aparagus macrorhizus) and Androsela (Androsace rioxana) from Rioja are also considered “endangered”, while the European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis), a reptile, will change. will win the “vulnerable” category.
Expanded catalog of invasive species
The same order will take the opportunity to amend another addendum of Royal Decree 630/2013 to add a plant to the Spanish Invasive Alien Species Catalogue, myopic (myopia laetum) and several invertebrates: palm lice (diocalandra berries), red fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), pharaoh ant (monomorium pharaohs) and crazy ant (Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi).
This change will also be marked and added as an invasive species. various vertebrates: fish Paramisgurnus dabryanus and all the mongooses and meerkats of the family herpestidae except mongoose (herpes ichneumon).
The Order reminds us that both the Endangered Species List and Catalogue and the Invasive Species Catalogue are “dynamic tools subject to continuous updating” based on proposals received by various institutions.
Therefore, the changes in the list of threatened species have been at the suggestion of the Autonomous Community of La Rioja, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of Valencia, the Bearded Vulture Conservation Foundation, the Spanish Herpetology Society, the Recovery Society. Cartagena Autochthonous Forest and Spanish Ornithological Society.
Recommendations were sent by the autonomous communities of the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands and Catalonia, in addition to the Iberian Myrmecological Society, to expand the list of invaders.
The processing of the different proposals has received the approval of the State Commission on Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.
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