“In historical times, Spain was a forest paradise. An imperial Eagle, the Queen of the birds of our forests, I would have been able to fly over the Iberian peninsula while flying over an infinite green mantle. It had traveled about pine, about oak, Oak, on coniferous forests, Mediterranean or deciduous. Today, the last masses of our forests, in the Pyrenees and Cantabrian mountains, They allow that the Eagles can still survive in a landscape that should constitute the majority of the Iberian Peninsula”.
But the relentless passage of the centuries, fire, the axe, Agriculture, abusive grazing disappeared, one after the other, the most important of our forests (…) The passage of time was transforming the jungle of the imperial Eagle in the steppe of the great bustard.”
Pero el paso implacable de los siglos, el fuego, el hacha, la agricultura, el pastoreo abusivo hicieron desaparecer, una tras otra, las más importantes de nuestras selvas (…) El paso del tiempo fue transformando la selva del águila imperial en la estepa de la avutarda.”