Line of action:

Terrestrial ecosystems

Status:

En ejecución

Location:

León, Burgos, Zamora, Segovia (Castilla y León), Cáceres (Extremadura)

Geographic scope:

España

Execution date:

2024

Duration:

09/02/2024 - 31/12/2025

Typology:

Integral projects for the recovery of mosaic/landscape multifunctionality (extensive livestock farming, agroforestry, etc.).

Total budget:

1,559,098.32 euros

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

1,481,143.40 euros (95%)

Given the current situation to which the forestry sector has been subjected in recent years, with rural depopulation and climate change as the main conditioning factors, forest fires increasingly represent a serious threat to the conservation of resources and biodiversity, making it necessary to create landscapes that are more resilient to external disturbances and capable of adapting to continuous change. An efficient way to achieve this is through the adoption of active land management, in which, through different agroforestry systems and uses, unproductive land is recovered, ecosystems are restored, employment is generated in rural areas, and above all the risk of forest fires is reduced, with the consequent contribution to the resilience of the landscape and the conservation and/or improvement of biodiversity.

Through the implementation of the activities foreseen in this project, and particularly with the implementation of planting, restoration and silvicultural treatments in strategic management points, the aim is to promote the recovery and production of unproductive land, directly in the short term through the creation of management commitments with local stakeholders, and in the medium to long term through the replicability of the initiatives developed on the territory. In this way, the aim is to enhance the value of unproductive, degraded or poorly managed land, in order to gradually impact the local economy through different NTFPs, contributing to the generation of jobs and population fixation in rural areas.

The overall objective of the project is the definition of active management scenarios through multifunctional agroforestry systems, to improve the resilience of the landscape to external disturbances, as well as to contribute to the improvement and conservation of biodiversity and to the socioeconomic development of the rural environment, in a context of adaptation and continuous change.

• Identification and analysis of target agroforestry systems and strategic management points.
• Comparative analysis of multifunctional management systems with low intensity and objective model with active management, proposed intervention in strategic areas to minimize the impact in case of forest fires.
• Plantations, reforestation, silvicultural models to change to multifunctional models in degraded or low intensity management areas.
• Development of a set of tools for measuring and evaluating results. Indicators.
• Participation, Networking, training and knowledge transfer.
• Promoting group management through management commitments through cooperatives and/or producer groups.