EPA’s Eye in the Sky: Asturias, Spain

A Cantabrian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) ambles along the Somiedo Natural Park in Somiedo, Asturias, northern Spain.

The park, which spans almost 40,000 hectares, was declared a World Biosphere Reserve by the United Nations’ cultural agency UNESCO in the year 2000.

Nestled between the mighty peaks of the Cantabrian mountain range, it is a stronghold for the endangered brown bear with a population of around 30 specimens, which has earned the park the moniker of the ‘Spanish Yellowstone’ in local media.

It is also the habitat for a significant number of Cantabrian capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus cantabricus) grouses.

Via EPA-EFE/J.L. CEREIJIDO