The project is implemented in 23 Natura 2000 Special Protection Areas (SPA), in Portugal (14) and Spain (9). In Portugal there are 2700 km of low and medium voltage power lines in these SPAs and adjacent areas, which constitutes a high risk of mortality by collision and electrocution for the target species.
Map Key
SPAs Portugal
1 - Rios Sabor e Maçãs (PTZPE0037)
2 - Douro Internacional e Vale do Águeda (PTZPE0038)
3 - Vale do Côa (PTZPE0039)
4 - Tejo Internacional, Erges e Pônsul (PTZPE0042)
5 - Campo Maior (PTZPE0043)
6 - Veiros (PTZPE0052)
7 - Vila Fernando (PTZPE0053)
8 - Évora (PTZPE0055)
9 - Mourão/Moura/Barrancos (PTZPE0045)
10 - Cuba (PTZPE0057)
11 - Castro Verde (PTZPE0046)
12 - Vale do Guadiana (PTZPE0047)
13 - Piçarras (PTZPE0058)
14 - Costa Sudoeste (PTZPE0015)
SPAs Spain
15 - Lagunas de Villafáfila (ES0000004)
16 - Arribes del Duero – ZEPA (ES0000118)
17 - Río Tajo Internacional y Riberos (ES0000368)
18 - Llanos de Alcantara y Brozas (ES0000369)
19 - Sierra de San Pedro (ES0000070)
20 - La Serena y Sierras Periféricas (ES0000367)
21 - Dehesas de Jerez (ES4310004)
22 - Sierra Aracena y Picos de Aroche (ES0000051)
23 - Campiñas de Sevilla (ES6180017).
These areas support the majority of the threatened target species’ populations. In Portugal, these areas include 100% of the reproducing pairs of Cinereous vulture, Egyptian vulture and Spanish imperial eagle, 95% of the Great Bustard population, 54% of the Little Bustard population, 80% of the Montagu’s Harrier population and 90% of the Roller population.
