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  • Rotbuche im Wind, Fagus sylvatica, Morske Oko Reservat, Ost-Slowakei / Beech in wind, Fagus sylvatica, Morske Oko Reserve, East Slovakia
    KWO-080612062_Buche_im_Wind.jpg
  • WIND SWEAPT PATTERNS ON SNOW; OULU, FINLAND; EUROPE; 2009
    SVZ-2009-02-24-101252.jpg
  • Lake Skadar, landscape from Murici, Montenegro,
    MRA 20080520 084138 _MLN5094.jpg
  • Lake Skadar, landscape from Murici, Montenegro,
    MRA 20080520 084130 _MLN5093.jpg
  • Lake Skadar, landscape from Murici, Montenegro,
    MRA 20080520 083937 _MLN5090.jpg
  • Storm on lake Skadar on Vranjina, Montenegro
    MRA 20080519 202121 _MLN5050.jpg
  • Storm on lake Skadar on Vranjina, Montenegro
    MRA 20080519 200614 _MLN5038.jpg
  • Windy grasslands on Polonina Carynska, Bieszczady National Park, Poland
    GLE_2009-07-25_140.jpg
  • Black vulture just avoiding being hit by a wind turbine rotor, Wind farms, causing great risks for soaring raptors, like the Black vulture , Aegypius monachus, Sierra de Gata, Spain
    SWD-2013-06-01-155740.jpg
  • Black vulture just avoiding being hit by a wind turbine rotor, Wind farms, causing great risks for soaring raptors, like the Black vulture , Aegypius monachus, Sierra de Gata, Spain
    SWD-2013-06-01-155705crop.jpg
  • Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) in a day that the strong Bora wind blowing. Caprazlije area. Livasnsko Polje. May 2009. Bosnia-Herzegovina. <br />
Elio della Ferrera / Wild Wonders of Europe
    EDF-20090530-194039_41U1632.jpg
  • Northern lights in - 40°C, FINLAND/RIISITUNTURI NATIONAL PARK, LAPLAND, This could be any mountain spruce forest north of the Polar circle. The Northern lights, or Aurora borealis is a phenomenon, originating in the uppermost part of the atmosphere and caused by solar wind particles that are speeded up along the Earth’s magnetic field lines. It happens all year round, but is only visible when nights are dark enough, and most frequently during the equinoxes, in September-October and March-April. Riisitunturi National Park covers 77 Sq km and is one of 25,000 protected sites under the EU Natura 2000 umbrella.
    SVZ-2009-02-14-224649.jpg
  • Canary pines (Pinus canariensis) moved by the wind over the black lava in the Chio area, Teide National Park, Tenerife Island, Canary Islands, Spain.
    IRR-2008-12-12-192427.jpg
  • Tabaiba amarga (Euphorbia lamarkii) moved by the wind in the Masca Valley, West Tenerife Island, Canary Islands. Spain.
    IRR-2008-12-11-150052.jpg
  • Beech Tree in wind, Fagus sylvatica, Morske Oko Reserve, Vihorlat Mountains, Western Carpathians, Eastern Slovakia, Europe
    KWO-2009-05-24-154901.jpg
  • Beech Tree in wind, Fagus sylvatica, Morske Oko Reserve, Vihorlat Mountains, Western Carpathians, Eastern Slovakia, Europe
    KWO-2009-05-24-161437.jpg
  • Wind power turbines, windmills, Adriatic islands, Velebit mountains Nature Park, Croatia
    SWD-2014-04-13-083419.jpg
  • Wind farms, causing great risks for soaring raptors, like the Black vulture , Aegypius monachus, Sierra de Gata, Spain
    SWD-2013-06-01-160411.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, and Black vulture, Aegypius monachus,  SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112944.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112843crop.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112838.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112645.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, and Black vulture, Aegypius monachus,  SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112354.jpg
  • Black vulture, Aegypius monachus,  SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112000.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, and Black vulture, Aegypius monachus,  SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-111320 (1).jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-110153.jpg
  • Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) in a day that the strong Bora wind blowing. Caprazlije area. Livasnsko Polje. May 2009. Bosnia-Herzegovina. <br />
Elio della Ferrera / Wild Wonders of Europe
    EDF-20090530-193815_41U1626.jpg
  • Meadows with flowering sticky catchfly (Silene viscaria) in the days when strong Bora wind occur. Caprazlije. Livasnsko Polje. May 2009. Bosnia-Herzegovina. <br />
Elio della Ferrera / Wild Wonders of Europe
    EDF-20090530-063018_41U1504.jpg
  • Dark clouds over Livansko Polje,  in a day that strong Bora wind blowing. The houses of Radanovci village. Livasnsko Polje. May 2009. Bosnia-Herzegovina. <br />
Elio della Ferrera / Wild Wonders of Europe
    EDF-20090529-081439_41U1383.jpg
  • One of the secondary roads of the Livansko Polje, with black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), in a day that the strong Bora wind blowing. Caprazlije area. Livasnsko Polje. May 2009. Bosnia-Herzegovina. <br />
Elio della Ferrera / Wild Wonders of Europe
    EDF-20090529-072916_41U1368.jpg
  • Meadows with flowering sticky catchfly (Silene viscaria) in the days when strong Bora wind occour. Caprazlije. Livasnsko Polje. May 2009. Bosnia-Herzegovina. <br />
Elio della Ferrera / Wild Wonders of Europe
    EDF-20090529-060422_41U1323.jpg
  • Dark clouds over Livansko in a day that strong Bora wind blowing. Caprazlije area. Livasnsko Polje. May 2009. Bosnia-Herzegovina. <br />
Elio della Ferrera / Wild Wonders of Europe
    EDF-20090529-063123_41U1339.jpg
  • Mount Krivàn (2495 m asl), national symbol of Slovakia. Summit with clouds in strong wind. High Tatras, Slovakia. June 2009. Mission: Ticha
    BDA-20090609-0077.jpg
  • Reed grass (Calamagrostis) in wind, Camargue, France
    TAL-2009-04-21-232531.jpg
  • Wind farms, causing great risks for soaring raptors, like the Black vulture , Aegypius monachus, Sierra de Gata, Spain
    SWD-2013-06-01-152124.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, and Black vulture, Aegypius monachus,  SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112953.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112646 (1).jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-112843.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-110651crop.jpg
  • Griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus, SPAIN/CAMPANARIOS DE AZÁBA RESERVE, SALAMANCA PROVINCE, CASTILLA Y LEÓN Vulture watching has become increasingly popular and can now be done at several sites in Spain and Portugal, where you can see these amazing birds up close from purpose-built hides. This photo is from a hide in the Campanarios de Azába reserve, run by Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre and a part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. For the first time in European history, live, wild vultures can be worth serious money for the land owners.The comeback of the griffon vulture in Spain is a great conservation success story – from 7,000 pairs in 1980 to approx. 18,000 in 2009. Griffons now breed in 16 European countries and have recently been seen in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.  But it’s not all good news. Each year, around 1,000 vultures are killed in Spain as a result of collisions with poorly placed wind turbines. EU veterinary regulations also mean that fewer dead domestic animals are left out in the open, and this has spelled disaster for all four European vulture species. Particularly in Greece and the Balkans, vultures still also fall victim to some shepherds bad old habit of poisoning carcasses to kill wolves – inevitably, all other scavengers then die off too. Photo: Staffan Widstrand/Wild Wonders of Europe
    SWD-2012-06-30-110925.jpg
  • Reed grass (Calamagrostis) in wind, Camargue, France
    TAL-2009-04-21-232428.jpg
  • 27.04.2009<br />
Wind-power station<br />
Around Westerhever, Germany
    LNO_20090427_2095.jpg
  • 27.04.2009<br />
Wind-power station<br />
Around Westerhever, Germany
    LNO_20090427_2092.jpg
  • Wind-formed trees, Crataegus, near Wexford, Ireland
    PHE-2009-06-07-163034.jpg
  • 27.04.2009<br />
Wind-power station<br />
Around Westerhever, Germany
    LNO_20090427_2094.jpg
  • 27.04.2009<br />
Wind-power station<br />
around Westerhever, Germany
    LNO_20090427_1219.jpg
  • Sand Dune with Red Deer Tracks & Marram Grass (Ammophila arenaria)<br />
These are mobile sand dunes within the National Park. Initially formed on the beach the southwesterly winds pile up small mounds of sand around an obstacle or plant which as it accumulates becomes unstable and is progressively blown inland forming larger and larger dunes<br />
Doñana National & Natural Park. Huelva Province, Andalusia. SPAIN<br />
1969 - Set up as a National Park<br />
1981 - Biosphere Reserve<br />
1982 - Wetland of International Importance, Ramsar<br />
1985 - Special Protection Area for Birds<br />
1994 - World Heritage Site, UNESCO.<br />
The marshlands in particular are a very important area for the migration, breeding and wintering of European and African birds. It is also an area of old cultures, traditions and human uses - most of which are still in existance.
    POX-2009-05-07_18-Dunes & Tracks.jpg
  • Sand Dunes encroaching on Pine Trees (Pinus sp.) & Marram Grass (Ammophila arenaria)<br />
These are mobile sand dunes within the National Park. Initially formed on the beach the southwesterly winds pile up small mounds of sand around an obstacle or plant which as it accumulates becomes unstable and is progressively blown inland forming larger and larger dunes<br />
Doñana National & Natural Park. Huelva Province, Andalusia. SPAIN<br />
1969 - Set up as a National Park<br />
1981 - Biosphere Reserve<br />
1982 - Wetland of International Importance, Ramsar<br />
1985 - Special Protection Area for Birds<br />
1994 - World Heritage Site, UNESCO.<br />
The marshlands in particular are a very important area for the migration, breeding and wintering of European and African birds. It is also an area of old cultures, traditions and human uses - most of which are still in existance.
    POX-2009-05-13_196-Dunes & Plants.jpg
  • Sand Dunes encroaching on Pine Trees (Pinus sp.) & Marram Grass (Ammophila arenaria)<br />
These are mobile sand dunes within the National Park. Initially formed on the beach the southwesterly winds pile up small mounds of sand around an obstacle or plant which as it accumulates becomes unstable and is progressively blown inland forming larger and larger dunes<br />
Doñana National & Natural Park. Huelva Province, Andalusia. SPAIN<br />
1969 - Set up as a National Park<br />
1981 - Biosphere Reserve<br />
1982 - Wetland of International Importance, Ramsar<br />
1985 - Special Protection Area for Birds<br />
1994 - World Heritage Site, UNESCO.<br />
The marshlands in particular are a very important area for the migration, breeding and wintering of European and African birds. It is also an area of old cultures, traditions and human uses - most of which are still in existance.
    POX-2009-05-07_118-Dunes & Plants.jpg
  • Sand Dunes with Marram Grass (Ammophila arenaria) <br />
These are mobile sand dunes within the National Park. Initially formed on the beach the southwesterly winds pile up small mounds of sand around an obstacle or plant which as it accumulates becomes unstable and is progressively blown inland forming larger and larger dunes<br />
Doñana National & Natural Park. Huelva Province, Andalusia. SPAIN<br />
1969 - Set up as a National Park<br />
1981 - Biosphere Reserve<br />
1982 - Wetland of International Importance, Ramsar<br />
1985 - Special Protection Area for Birds<br />
1994 - World Heritage Site, UNESCO.<br />
The marshlands in particular are a very important area for the migration, breeding and wintering of European and African birds. It is also an area of old cultures, traditions and human uses - most of which are still in existance.
    POX-2009-05-07_54-Dunes & Plants.jpg
  • Sand Dune with Red Deer Tracks & Marram Grass (Ammophila arenaria)<br />
These are mobile sand dunes within the National Park. Initially formed on the beach the southwesterly winds pile up small mounds of sand around an obstacle or plant which as it accumulates becomes unstable and is progressively blown inland forming larger and larger dunes<br />
Doñana National & Natural Park. Huelva Province, Andalusia. SPAIN<br />
1969 - Set up as a National Park<br />
1981 - Biosphere Reserve<br />
1982 - Wetland of International Importance, Ramsar<br />
1985 - Special Protection Area for Birds<br />
1994 - World Heritage Site, UNESCO.<br />
The marshlands in particular are a very important area for the migration, breeding and wintering of European and African birds. It is also an area of old cultures, traditions and human uses - most of which are still in existance.
    POX-2009-05-07_20-Dunes & Tracks.jpg
  • Sand Dune with Red Deer Tracks & Marram Grass (Ammophila arenaria)<br />
These are mobile sand dunes within the National Park. Initially formed on the beach the southwesterly winds pile up small mounds of sand around an obstacle or plant which as it accumulates becomes unstable and is progressively blown inland forming larger and larger dunes<br />
Doñana National & Natural Park. Huelva Province, Andalusia. SPAIN<br />
1969 - Set up as a National Park<br />
1981 - Biosphere Reserve<br />
1982 - Wetland of International Importance, Ramsar<br />
1985 - Special Protection Area for Birds<br />
1994 - World Heritage Site, UNESCO.<br />
The marshlands in particular are a very important area for the migration, breeding and wintering of European and African birds. It is also an area of old cultures, traditions and human uses - most of which are still in existance.
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