The UNESCO "Man and the Biosphere" programme admitted twenty-odd new sites as biosphere reserves last month, three of which are in Spain and/or Portugal (that's one in Spain, one in Portugal and one in both). The new sites are Formentera in the Canary Islands, Flores Island in the Azores, and the adjoining Gerês-Jures nature reserves in the north of Portugal and south of Galicia, considered as one. Biosphere reserves differ from natural parks in that they are not wilderness areas but places where Man and nature have interacted to create ecological niches and ecosystems, now threatened as ways of life change (for our purposes, that means they are usually attractive landscapes but that you can generally find a drink and a meal somewhere). I have put together a map of biosphere reserves in Spain and Portugal.