land Article The Contribution of Local Management to Biodiversity Conservation: An Analysis of Specific Cases in the Region of Madrid (Spain) Pedro Molina-Holgado 1, Nieves López-Estébanez 1, Ana-Belén Berrocal-Menárguez 2,*, Fernando Allende-Álvarez 1 and Miguel del Corro-Toro 3 1 Department of Geography, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +34-910674197 Received: 26 October 2020; Accepted: 17 November 2020; Published: 19 November 2020 Abstract: In line with the Urban Agenda for the EU, this article highlights the importance of local actions in the conservation of biodiversity, both through specific activities and by increasing the availability of information. As such, the policies and projects related to the conservation of biodiversity have been analyzed here at different levels and, in particular, the initiatives undertaken in the Madrid Region, Spain. Consequently, two cases are presented that demonstrate the role that local administrations can play in improving the biodiversity database, and hence, in the effective protection of areas of significant environmental value. First, we will examine the effects that creating an environmental inventory of vegetation, flora and landscape has had in Torrelodones. Second, among the more recent environmental policies implemented in the municipality of Madrid are those that resulted in the environmental recovery of the urban section of the Manzanares River.