National Hunting Reserve

The National Hunting Reserve is a figure of environmental protection that was first established in Spain by Law 37/1966, dated 31 May. It is a series of geographically delimited zones and subject to a special hunting regime, established by Law with the purpose of promoting, promoting, conserving and protecting certain species, subordinating to this purpose the possible exploitation of their hunting. Various regulatory provisions were issued under this law.

According to the explanatory memorandum of this law, the special physical and biological circumstances that occur in certain Spanish districts indicate them as nuclei of exceptional hunting possibilities, whose protection, complemented by appropriate conservation and promotion measures, could guarantee the difficult survival of species so characteristic of the Iberian fauna as they are the mountain goat, the chamois, the roe deer, the bear, the grouse and others.

This law created the following reserves: Ancares (Lugo); Degaña, Somiedo and Sueve (Oviedo); Mampodre and Riaño (León); Saja (Santander); Fuentes Carrionas (Palencia); The Valleys, Viñamala, Los Circos and Benasque (Huesca); Alto Pallars (Lérida), Cerdagne and Alto Urgel (Lérida and Gerona); of the Cadí (Lérida, Gerona and Barcelona); Fresser and Setcasas (Gerona); Ports of Beceite (Teruel, Tarragona and Castellón); Cíjara (Badajoz); Tables of Daimiel (Ciudad Real) and Sierra Nevada (Granada).

Some of them have since ceased to exist, as they have been included in other figures of greater environmental protection, such as the National or Natural Parks, as was the case, for example, in the Sierra Nevada, while others been created later or modified the scope of existing by other laws, both state and autonomous.

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