Line of action:

Terrestrial ecosystems

Status:

En ejecución

Location:

Girona, Lleida and Tarragona (Catalonia)

Geographic scope:

España

Execution date:

2024

Duration:

09/02/2024 - 31/12/2025

Typology:

Sustainable forest management

Total budget:

2,007,911.73 euros

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

1,907,516.11 euros (95%)

The project will demonstrate how stewardship generates bioeconomy in rural territories of Catalonia by promoting multifunctional sustainable forest management (SFM) that integrates the conservation and enhancement of biodiversity and habitats with the production of ecosystem services to generate resilient landscapes in the face of climate change. SFM will be planned at the landscape scale and will promote adaptive governance systems that generate territorial cohesion, include the gender perspective and promote bioeconomy models.

socially, environmentally and economically fair. These models will be based on the promotion of climate credits, the identification and generation of financing niches for forest stewardship, and the promotion of ecotourism, the primary sector and bioenergy to fix population in areas of demographic decline. Replicability will be encouraged through communication, training and citizen participation.

Promote land stewardship as a governance tool to generate bioeconomy in forest systems, promoting population fixation and the conservation and improvement of biodiversity.

Implementation of 4 SFM subprojects in 4 areas of Catalonia (Tarragona and Gerona) through stewardship with actions at the planning and execution level:

Planning: FI management plans (Gaià valley, 1,402 hectares including 499 hectares owned by Repsol); GIF prevention plan, pilot plan for prescribed burns and viability plan for the recovery of the black vulture (Muga valley, 40,753 Ha and 20,059 Ha); modification of the Forest Management and Stewardship Instrument in the territory of the capercaillie (Pallars Subirá, 1,273 Ha); Management study for the resilience of the silvopastoral mosaic according to type of mass (6 private farms in Girona, 2,975 Ha). Forest management: renaturation with GFS (Gaià valley, 15 Ha of Bonelli’s eagle, turtle and bat habitat, 15 Ha of Aleppo pine, 2 Ha of carob tree recovery, 2.5 Ha of pasture recovery, 2.1 km of paths, etc.); habitat management for the conservation of vultures and other large birds of prey (Muga Valley, 25 ha); GFS in capercaillie beds with conservation criteria (Pallars Subirá, 2 Ha); SFM for resilience (Girona estates, ~100 ha). Bioeconomy: implementation of 3 tourist trails on the vulture, the Mediterranean tortoise and on health (Gaià Basin); promotion of the establishment of the vulture to activate ornithological tourism (Muga Valley); training in landscape bioengineering using remains of the SFM in the capercaillie area (Pallars Subirá); design of climate credits, search for their commercialization and dissemination among companies in the sector; training in landscape bioengineering; +100 volunteer days, good practice guides and detailed monitoring of environmental and socio-economic indicators.