In 2003 the Monfragüe Biosphere Reserve was recognised as being a territory representative of Mediterranean vegetation in which harmony has been maintained between natural values and progressive and balanced human intervention.

With the Monfragüe Natural Park as the core, an area has been established around it in which to carry out educational, research, and tourist activities. The most extensive area of the Reserve which surrounds this core holds most of its villages and has extensive areas of dehesa and scrub which for centuries have been devoted to extensive exploitation, essentially stockbreeding, forestry, and hunting. 

The Monfragüe Biosphere Reserve is particularly well-known for its great biodiversity. Over its surface area of more than 116,000 hectares we can find a variety of landscapes ranging from wide areas of thickets to narrow riverside woodland of alders and ashes. In this rich environment we can observe some of the largest colonies of the black vulture, imperial eagle, black stork, eagle owl, and griffon vulture in Europe and even in the world. 

The population density is very low in the Biosphere Reserve; work is being carried out to unite the area and to create sustainable development so as to maintain the population and provide growth opportunities related to the care and conservation of the environment.