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Dehesa

202150 minGdocumentary

The Dehesa ecosystem in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula is home to diverse species, including the black Iberian pig, booted eagle, and the rabilargo magpie.

biodiversity animals wildlife-conservation agro-ecology

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Dehesa

2021• 50 minG

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The Dehesa ecosystem in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula is home to diverse species, including the black Iberian pig, booted eagle, and the rabilargo magpie.

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The southwestern Iberian Peninsula is home to an extraordinary ecosystem known as the Dehesa. Few places in Europe compare in terms of the richness and diversity of nature found here. Here live the fighting bull, the booted eagle, the black Iberian pig, the unicorn beetle… Or the mysterious rabilargo, a type of magpie only living here and in China.

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