The Director General of Environmental Quality and Assessment and the Natural Environment of MAPAMA (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and the Environment), Guillermina Yanguas, accompanied by the Director of the Biodiversity Foundation, Sonia Castañeda, today inaugurated the “I Conference on Land Stewardship Contracts and Legal Security”, which was held at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid.

The Director General of Environmental Quality and Assessment and the Natural Environment of MAPAMA (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and the Environment), Guillermina Yanguas, accompanied by the Director of the Biodiversity Foundation, Sonia Castañeda, today inaugurated the “I Conference on Land Stewardship Contracts and Legal Security”, which was held at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid.

Land stewardship is a strategy that aims to involve the owners and users of the territory in the conservation of the natural, cultural and landscape values and resources of the territory. This commitment is materialized through legal agreements with non-profit entities. The objective of this Conference is to publicize and discuss the legal experience developed by custody entities throughout the State.

During her speech, Guillermina Yanguas stressed that “the adequate and precise development of land stewardship requires continuing to advance in good practice criteria”, so it is necessary to “progress in the development of contract models with high legal certainty, thus strengthening custody agreements throughout Spain”.

Yanguas has valued that with conferences such as the one held today “we take a step forward in the driving idea of the Ministry to achieve maximum legal certainty in all its actions and grant greater participation to civil society in the achievement of its environmental objectives”.

The Conference has had interventions by representatives of the environmental administration, legal sessions of the networks and entities of land stewardship and the notary. Groups of owners and users of the natural environment and legal professionals interested in this conservation strategy have also attended.