Spain, Canary Islands

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 guidebook helps you to locate the best hiking trails or tours inside these parks and to find the hot spots. To find the journey that matches your wish.

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. This book is also intended to serve as a tool to raise awareness of the problem of IAS (invasive alien species).