Recovering lost territories. Since 1990 the bearded vulture has gone in a few decades from being a species at imminent risk of extinction at state and community level to a situation of hope, both for the recovery of the Pyrenean population and for the evolution of different reintroduction projects (Picos de Europa, Sierra de Cazorla, Alps and Maestrazgo).
Parallel to these initiatives, “natural” settlements are taking place, favored by the dispersing specimens of the Pyrenean source population and the aforementioned projects, both in already formed populations (Pyrenees, Picos de Europa and Sierra de Cazorla), and in mountain systems with abundant trophic resources available for the species (Sierras de Gredos, Guadarrama or Sistema Ibérico).
The current situation can be clearly improved with the implementation of conservation strategies and actions that have worked in recent decades in the Pyrenean population.
The project “Recovering lost territories”, has been promoted by the Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture and financed by the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge and with the administrative support of the various regional governments involved.