Portugal, Madeira

This is the most detailed and inspiring guidebook for hikers and nature lovers, describing all national parks in southwestern Europe, Macaronesia and the Alps. This book helps you to find the best place in this part of Europe with most orchids, most vultures, most wolves or most butterflies – or specific species if you are looking for such. The book contains more than 3,575 species of flora and fauna.

This book aims to answer questions relating to species introduced into the Macaronesian environment, including the Canary Islands (Spain), Madeira (Portugal) and the Azores (Portugal). It is a first attempt to present information regarding alien species in the European region of Macaronesia in a systematic way. A standard set of criteria was designed and applied to those species considered as naturalized and occupying natural and semi-natural habitats.

Ce document de référence, réalisé par l'UICN en partenariat avec l'ONERC, fait suite aux actes de la conférence "L'Union européenne et l'Outre-mer: Stratégies face au changement climatique et à la perte de Biodiversité" qui s'est tenue à La Réunion du 7 au 11 juillet 2008. Ce document offre pour la première fois une analyse comparative des 28 collectivités d'outre-mer de l'Union européenne.

Este documento de referencia, elaborado por la UICN en colaboración con el ONERC sigue el procedimiento de la conferencia de la UICN "La Unión Europea y sus Territorios de Ultramar: Estrategias para hacer frente al Cambio Climático y la Pérdida de la Biodiversidad," tuvo lugar en la Isla de Reunión del 7 al 11 de julio de 2008. El documento ofrece por primera vez un análisis comparativo de las 28 entarget_idades de ultramar de la Unión Europea.

This background paper, produced by IUCN in collaboration with ONERC, follows the proceedings of the IUCN conference "The European Union and its Overseas Entities: Strategies to Counter Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss", which took place on Reunion Island from 7 to 11 July 2008. The paper offers for the first time a comparative analysis of the 28 overseas entities of the European Union.