The Diputación de Málaga provincial authority, together with the Junta de Andalucía regional government, has published the book ‘Selected Flora of the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park’ to mark its 40th anniversary. In fact, the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park was the first in Andalucía to be declared as such in 1985, although the recognition of its environmental importance had a significant precedent in 1977, the year in which it was designated by Unesco as one of the first Biosphere Reserves in Spain.
This area, spanning Malaga and Cadiz provinces, which includes parts of the Serranía de Ronda, holds enormous environmental values, both in its subsoil, with a spectacular geology that gives rise to caverns such as the Hundidero-Gato system, and on its surface, where life develops on top of this karst geology, giving rise to unique habitats and communities of fauna and flora.
“At the Diputación, we work to showcase the inland parts of our province, and we are committed to disseminating knowledge of our natural heritage,” said provincial deputy María del Carmen Martínez, in her presentation, which took place at the Andrés Pérez Serrano high school in Cortes de la Frontera.
And it is precisely the unique flora of this area that constitutes the soul of this publication, which has been published with the collaboration of the Ministry of Sustainability and Environment of the Andalusian regional government, thus uniting both institutions in this 40th anniversary.
“We intend to continue the work of distinguished botanists of the past, who discovered and described our species, and to promote knowledge of them through this fascinating compendium of both the rarest and the most common plants that we can find on our walks in the mountains,” the deputy stated.
