Wild nature has the potential to offer helpful jobs and revenue for individuals in and across the Iberian Highlands rewilding panorama. In 2023, Rewilding Spain will take steps to boost nature-based tourism within the space.
Juan Carlos Muñoz Robredo
Transformative potential
With its dramatic canyons and sweeping pine, oak and juniper forests – in addition to iconic wildlife species akin to Bonelli’s eagles, griffon vultures and Iberian ibex – Rewilding Europe’s Iberian Highlands rewilding panorama in Spain has big nature-based tourism potential. With rural depopulation resulting in restricted financial alternatives right here, the event of a thriving nature-based financial system may benefit native individuals enormously and encourage others to return and revitalise the realm.
In a step in direction of enhancing nature-based tourism within the Iberian Highlands, Rewilding Spain has simply joined the Sustainable Tourism Discussion board of the Molina-Alto Tajo area, which brings collectively organisations concerned in sustainable nature tourism within the space. The discussion board can also be a member of the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism community, an initiative of the EUROPARC Federation which goals to advertise the event of sustainable tourism in Europe’s protected areas.
“We’re delighted with this transfer,” says Rewilding Spain workforce chief Pablo Schapira. “Becoming a member of the discussion board is a good alternative to unfold the optimistic message of rewilding and set up a typical rewilding imaginative and prescient, in addition to to work along with different members of the group to realize shared sustainable tourism aims.”
Juan Carlos Muñoz Robredo
Selling sustainable tourism
Guaranteeing native individuals and communities profit economically and culturally from the restoration of native wild nature is likely one of the pillars of the Iberian Highlands rewilding. With this in thoughts, Rewilding Spain will make concerted efforts to develop sustainable tourism in 2023. Such efforts will embody celebrating sustainable tourism within the space, selling the Iberian Highlands as a destination for international visitors with the help of worldwide tour operators, serving to native entrepreneurs develop and provide nature-based actions, and growing the nationwide and worldwide visibility of the panorama by enhancing its wild nature.
Rewilding Spain’s membership of the Sustainable Tourism Discussion board was formalised at a gathering held on the Alto Tajo Pure Park Guests Centre within the city of Corduente. It was coordinated by Alto Tajo Pure Park officers and was additionally attended by representatives of Geopark, the Affiliation of Rural Growth Molina de Aragón-Alto Tajo, municipalities, and corporations within the tourism sector.
Representatives of the Affiliation of Ecotourism and Lively Tourism of Castilla-La Mancha, ATRAMA (Rural Tourism Affiliation of the Area of Molina de Aragón-Alto Tajo), Rumbo Rural, and the Federation of Associations of the Area of Molina de Aragón-Alto Tajo took half within the assembly as nicely.
