See Beavers on the Manzanares River in Madrid is already a reality And no joke. And everything is due to the effects of the illegal release, since the Paco García biologist and consultant are confirmed, which scared a few days ago how There were traces of this animal in the El Pardo area. In the center of the capital of Madrid is this neighborhood that gets the same name as the famous mountain that covers its streets.
The signals were more than clear, because this animal expert would confirm that there were remains of trunks in the area that were roasted by this animal protected And whose expansion has no scientific criteria in recent times, but for the illegal loose that is made in the rivers of our country. A loose that, in the opinion of Paco García, only has a future for beavers who are left in this area: His zero survival.
And this part of Madrid, in addition to very populated and busy, is surrounded by the mother of El Pardo and by the capital itself; This is added There is hardly any water flow In a section that when the months of hotter arrive, it dries. Without a doubt a small flattering end for this beaver From illegal release.
Castores Release on the Manzanares River
The Beaver has reportedly reached the Manzanares from the hand of an illegal release, according to the biologist and consultant Paco García, who has found traces of his presence in the Pardo, a Madrid capital district surrounded by the mountain of the same name, considered one of the jewels of the biodiversity of the Madrid community.
After watching a video in which a young man assured that he had seen Castores in Madrid, García, an expert validator in traces of mammals of the urban science platformbesbers.org and vice president of the Spanish Society for Conservation and Study of Mammals (SCEME)He started his search.
“I approached to verify that it was not a joke (…), but it is totally true,” the expert told Ephe, who found unambiguous indications of his presence, such as Poyed Trunks for specimens of this species that, despite protected, extends from the hand of illegal loose and Not based on scientific criteria.
Beavers with few opportunities to survive
Since the first copies have been introduced in 2003, in the Ebro, between Navarra and La Rioja, beavers have been detected in El Duero, between Zamora and Portugal; the guadalquivir, in Jaén; In Alto Jalón, Benamir (Soria) and recently in El Tajjo, in Guadalajara, in the Zorita de los Canes area.
This would be the nearest population of Madrid, but it is impossible that they have arrived from there to El Pardo, has said García, who has noticed that he does not think of a worse area to release them: it is very populated and is very populated (Mingorrubio) and frankly through the city of Mado.
«They will have a very narrow strip to moveCan’t an introduction be made in a worse location, where the river also dries summer when summer arrives and is a wire, “said the biologist, who believes that the copies released there are, are Very little survival options.
“The administrations must stop looking the other side, it is the fifth illegal release (…) This is as if someone has released Lyins and Bears where he wanted,” Criticized Garcia, after he remembered that the beaver in the List of wild species in the security regime (Lestre) of Spain since 2020as determined by the European Union.
When the first copies in Spain were detected at the beginning of the century, the administration was obliged to eliminate them because they had been introduced illegally, which in turn led to the appearance of groups in their defense. After years of non -definitive, the EU forced Spain to introduce the beaver in the LESPRE list to the entire national territory, which implies that they cannot be hunted, but also that an individual cannot handle the species without permission and Without an administration plan that supports this.
There has been no plan in Spain reintrod the beaver, Of which there are no severe quotes in the country in more than 2000 years, so it is expanded by the national territory, it is because someone is illegal and without control, has pointed out to the biologist and consultant Jorge González Esteban.
In his opinion, the administration must stop a situation that is clearly one Environmental crime that is committed with total impunity.
How did the beaver arrive in Spain?
This glory rodent was about to disappear in the early twenty Interested in your meat and skin.
To prevent this, they have launched programs for their recovery in various European countries, something that was never raised in Spain because the one Animal “that has no recent memory” And because those big rivers of the Castor “disappeared here long ago or were never well represented,” said González Esteban.
Because of the investigations they have carried out, the first people arrived in Spain “because of the account and risk” of activists of a Belgian NGO, who devoted themselves to spreading specimens by various European countries. Those who arrived in the country obtained them from a reintroduction project in Bavaria, Germany. In 2003 they landed in Spain with two groups of beavers. One was released in the Ebro, around Navarra and La Rioja, and another in the Miño, in Galicia. Apparently the Galicians did not survive, but those of the Ebro, yes. EFE / ECOTICIA.COM