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It's five o'clock in the afternoon. Friday, September retail consulting group 13. We Pedrera, Barcelona. Climb the mini bus. Start a special retail consulting group weekend, a trip to see the Big Five wild Pyrenees. This is the prize that the Foundation Catalonia - La Pedrera has awarded the winners of the photo contest "Your Corner wild", which I already talk about it in another retail consulting group post. And it is an eco-tourism experience in the making.
The Big Five is a term that was invented hunters traveling in Africa. Referred to the five most difficult animals to hunt on foot: elephant, lion, buffalo, leopard retail consulting group and rhino. Later, retail consulting group the tour operator who organized photo safaris adopted this concept for advertising. retail consulting group And the name has made a fortune. From the organizing team of the competition "Your Corner wild," we were thinking about a hook to take this award. And here came the Big Five in the Pyrenees, who are none other than the wolf, the black vulture, the osprey, deer and brown bear. Following this order, the escape wild about that, try to observe these animals so iconic, and much more ...
> The most feared hunter in less than three hours journey we planted at Mount Alinyà (Alt Urgell), a huge natural foothills of the Foundation retail consulting group Catalonia - La Pedrera acquired in 1999 and since then manages benefit nature and local people. We are in the neighborhood Llobera a name that takes us to a past where the wolf was the hero of this land before disappearing completely. And, indeed, this species is our first goal, now has returned to Catalonia for their own foot from Italy. So far, it has been observed especially in the foothills, retail consulting group specifically in Moixeró Park and surrounding retail consulting group areas such as the very Alinyà Mountain.
It is dark, and 4 4 jeep track climb up to the lookout Antorsell, near the hill of Ares (which connects the town of Ossuary, another name that makes you think). Once there, our guide, Miquel retail consulting group Rafa, director of the Department of Planning and Environment Foundation Catalonia - La Pedrera, describes a technique for listening to the howling wolf. It's imitated its sound, and await their response. With much trace, and in the midst of absolute darkness, Miquel emulates a wolf. Then some of the neighbors dogs Alinyà respond. The technique works, retail consulting group although respondents are not wolves. We try again, but we're lucky. retail consulting group Today, it is still very difficult to glimpse or hear wolves in our country, but it seems that within a few years it will not be much.
We ended the first day in Ca Louise Peret. Surrounded by photos of vultures, and its author among us, serve us a delicious dinner with black peas first, second and grilled meat, accompanied by one of the stars of the valley: the triumphs Alinyà is ie, potatoes buffet retail consulting group excellent quality. In fact, the valley spread, we find the holes triumphs, peculiar dry stone buildings, half buried, which serve to preserve this precious tuber.
> The monk skies Saturday and today is our first targets are the black vulture and bearded. The first is a carrion vulture also known as monk for his bald head and black body, and happens to be the largest bird in Europe. Extinct in the Pyrenees since the late nineteenth century, in 2007 began to reintroduce Alinyà Boumort and nearby mountain ranges, thanks to the initiative of the Foundation La Pedrera, Catalonia and the Generalitat of Catalonia, which is who manages this other space is huge and wild Boumort. The project is a success. Proof of this is that the vulture has bred Boumort and its population tends to stabilize.
The bearded, meanwhile, is the crown jewel, a bird that attracts ecotourists, for its uniqueness and for its majesty. In Alinyà and Boumort not hard to see it. Even created a lookout for photographers that allows them to draw pictures and play spectacular.
To observe the two Big Five winged retail consulting group enjoy an activity that offers ecotourism Foundation every Saturday and is having very good reception: eating with vultures. We left the village on foot in 35 minutes and Alinyà reach a vantage point at 1,200 meters. From this point, and for a couple of hours, telescopes retail consulting group and binoculars to observe the vultures feed in a feed point located

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