Televisión Española will premiere tomorrow, Saturday, at 1:00 p.m., on La 2, the documentary series “Transhumant Footprints, Transhumance in Spain”, a work on livestock trails and the life of transhumant shepherds.

Co-produced by Domingo Moreno Producciones Cinematográficas, Canal Odisea and TVE, the series has had the collaboration of the Biodiversity Foundation. Made up of ten episodes, which will be broadcast weekly, the series presents these natural itineraries, maintained for centuries by transhumant shepherding, in order to raise awareness among the population about the importance of transhumance in Spain, an ancestral activity closely linked to the landscape and nature, which is an example of sustainable livestock practice.

Four of the ten episodes, which were completed at the end of 2009, were previously broadcast by Canal Odisea and, thanks to the collaboration of the Biodiversity Foundation, it has been possible to make another six. Now, TVE premieres the complete series nationwide. Each documentary follows a different itinerary in each chapter, on its way back and forth, approaching the life of shepherds and herds, through ravines and paths, through the Network of Livestock Trails that extends throughout the Spanish territory.

In this way, the Biodiversity Foundation wants to contribute to raising public awareness of a phenomenon as relevant from an environmental, economic and social point of view as transhumance. Thus, the series, once broadcast, will become part of the FB’s documentary collection.