The Hanas de Montejo (Madrid) forests, Black Tejera (in Castilla-La Mancha)Lizardoia and Aztaparreta (in Navarra), Cuesta Fría and Canal de Asotín (in Castilla y León) are part of the “Hayedos Primigenios of the Carpats and other regions of Europe ”, declared World Heritage by UNESCO.
Los Hayedos stand out for their beauty especially in the autumn months. They are great forests in which the beechs abound and where the intervention of man is barely appreciated. In addition, during the months of October and November they dress in almost infinite tones of ocher and red.
He Hayedo is one of the most important elements of temperate area forests and represents an exceptional example of recolonization and ecosystems development since the last glacial era. The continuous expansion to the north and west of Hayedo from its original glacial refuge areas in the east and southern Europe can be traced along the natural corridors and the milestones that pull the continent.
Protected Hayers
The Government of Castilla-La Mancha, through the Ministry of Sustainable Development, has adhered to the Protocol of action promoted by the Ministry of Culture, with which we want to enhance the coordinated actions with the competent autonomous communities of the Six beech forests declared World Heritage of UNESCO in Spainamong which is the Hayedo Black Tejera, in Guadalajara.
The General Director of Natural Environment and Biodiversity, Susana Jara, who has been in charge of signing the protocol on behalf of García-Page’s executive together with the representatives of Natural Environment of Madrid, Navarra, and Castilla y León, has remembered that the Hayedo de Tejera Negra, in the municipality of Cantalojas“It is one of the pioneer protected natural spaces in Castilla-La Mancha, since it was declared a natural site of national interest in 1974 and Natural Park in 1978”.
As stressed, since 2017, that of Tejera Negra “belongs to the list of Centenary Hayedos that are Unesco World Heritage, thanks to a statement that is transnational, since it includes 18 countries, among which is Spain with the six forests that are included in the World Heritage Declaration under the denomination ‘Ancient and Primary Forests of Hayas de los Cárpatos and other regions of Europe’. Jara has also indicated that this protocol “will help us continue to protect this botanical treasure that has survived to our times, being one of the most southern beech in Europe.”
The general director has concluded that, at present, “we are carrying out Selvicultural treatments in the repopulation of wild pine adjoining with the beechforest works that consist of the clarification of the pine forest and aim to naturalize this forest mass, favoring the natural regeneration and expansion of native species such as hay, oaks, serbales, acebos and birch, transforming it into a mixed forest of wild pine with leafy ”.