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Huge parts of Spain have always been deserts: https://fascinatingspain.com/place-to-visit/the-best-of/the-4-most-impressive-spanish-deserts/ https://fascinatin
by willdough 3y ago
Huge parts of Spain have always been deserts:
https://fascinatingspain.com/place-to-visit/the-best-of/the-4-most-impressive-spanish-deserts/ https://fascinatingspain.com/place-to-visit/the-best-of/the-...
- drabadur 3y agoThe problem of Spain is intense anthropogenic land (mis-)use including deforestation and mining, which led to the desertification especially in the south in the first place; this has been happening since pre-historic times. So, no, there shouldn't be deserts in Spain right now, and they are for the most part not natural. Read further here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003466670900205X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00346... (free version available via google search on ResearchGate)
- aregue 3y agoExactly. Los Monegros was until 1766 Europes largest oak (encina) forest. It had been a communal forest. The forest was privatized and cut to cultivate cereal.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoDoes Spain have any reforestation efforts planned for areas experiencing anthropogenic desertification?
- pvaldes 3y agoWithout the will to jail arsonists first is a waste of money.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoHuh, it makes me wonder how the Black Forest in Germany was preserved.
- Amezarak 3y agoIt mostly wasn’t. What you see now is a tiny remnant.
- willdough 3y agoThe linked article is about deforestation by humans and is irrelevant to the fact that huge parts of Spain have long been deserts.
- drabadur 3y agoDeforestation is the only major relevant factor that led to the formation of any desert in Spain, and this started a "long" time ago, and is purely and simply controlled by humans. For example, the famous Tabernas desert is the result of deforestation, followed by intensive erosion.