Line of action:

Terrestrial ecosystems

Status:

En ejecución

Location:

A Coruña, Pontevedra, Lugo (Galicia), Asturias (Principado de Asturias), León (Castilla y León)

Geographic scope:

España

Execution date:

2024

Duration:

09/02/2024 - 31/12/2025

Typology:

Development and diversification of forestry uses and harvests

Total budget:

1,693,554.75 euros

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

1,608,877.01 euros

The abandonment of the rural environment and the low profitability of interventions in pine forests to apply the existing silvicultural models in the different Autonomous Regions of the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula is conditioned by the existence of active silviculture for the production of quality timber. Under these conditions, fuel management becomes a real problem, exponentially increasing the risk of fire and decreasing the added value of the final timber harvests. The introduction of non-timber uses in the management models of Atlantic pine forests would help to provide them with greater multifunctionality, facilitating the desired active and sustainable forestry that would reduce the vulnerability of these stands to fires while generating a local economy linked to a fixation of population in rural areas with high levels of depopulation.

CARES pursues the promotion of joint management models for complementary uses over time with the aim of generating new quality and long-term jobs linked to the primary sector. This would generate more attractive, profitable and resilient jobs for the population of these territories and potential new settlers.

Create and promote joint management models for resin and chestnut harvesting to generate new quality and long-term jobs linked to the primary sector, while at the same time contributing to a more active and sustainable forest management that reduces the vulnerability of these stands to fire risk.

• Promotion of sustainable forest management of Atlantic pine stands.
• Implementation study of the NATURAL RESIN OF EUROPE brand based on the quality of the resin.
• Analysis and determination of the productive potential of chestnut production and biomass/resin production in trees destined for biomass as a use compatible with the resin production activity.
• Development of technical-economic models to improve and create quality and long-term employment of complementary products with resin.
• Revitalization of the population linked to forestry exploitation for the promotion of multifunctionality.
• Transfer of the knowledge generated.
• Project management and monitoring.