International Bird Fair. Tarifa 2008

Conservation of the environment, biodiversity, threatened species, in danger of extinction, desertification, sustainability, and cooperation to the development… these are concepts used in the day to day and that each time draws less our attention.

This is a phenomenon worthy of importance and positively, bearing in mind that less than two decades ago they were concepts reserved to a limited group of the society and that, nowadays, are part of the principal worries of the majority. To find formulae of management, implying the private sector, promoting the transition of habits, conducts and perception, towards models of generation of revenue according to the aims of conservation of the nature, sustainability and social equality, can be the most complex challenge, necessary to reach for everyone that work with the nature.

The International Bird Fair of Tarifa is scenery for the promotion of the destination of interior, of the sustainable tourism, the commercialisation, for developing the debate, the training and divulgation of the best experiences. A place of work for conservational projects and developing business areas responsible with the Natural Way.

At the end of the summer many species of birds leave Migración

the Western half of Europe to reach spaces of wintertime where they will find a better climate and major availability of food. The hottest Iberian Peninsula, the Maghreb and the Trans-Saharian Africa, compose the principal destinations of the migratory species; this is the reason why the Strait of Gibraltar, from mid-August to mid-November, turns into a place of strategic step into the migration of Europeans’ birds, together with the straits of the Bosporus and Messina.

Its situation, together with the quantity and intensity of natural phenomena and anthropics that are constantly happening in the Strait of Gibraltar, award to this enclave an important strategic value to geopolitical, cultural, economic and natural level.

The Bird Fair will be celebrated in the Cadiz’s municipality of Tarifa, in the field of Gibraltar.

For the area of Oriental Andalusia we recommend to take the city of Malaga as a reference, from where take the A-7, Highway of the Mediterranean, up to Algeciras, and from there, connect with the N-340 up to Tarifa.

For the area of Western Andalusia we recommend to take the city of Seville as a reference, to use the highway to Cadiz AP-4, having passed Jerez de la Frontera you must turn direction towards the the Highway A-381 Algeciras, and from there, connect with the N-340 up to Tarifa.

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The appointment with the birds and the ornithology will be celebrated, during the days 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st September matching the bird’s the migration for the wintertime.