Line of action:

Terrestrial ecosystems

Status:

En ejecución

Location:

Almeria (Andalusia)

Geographic scope:

España

Execution date:

2024

Duration:

01/01/2024 - 31/12/2025

Typology:

Ecological restoration

Total budget:

347,157.85 euros

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

329,799.96 euros

The climate crisis and the global change we are currently witnessing have a greater impact on the most vulnerable areas in terms of accessibility and services, with an eminently agrarian economy and a rural and inland character. It is within this framework of uncertainty and imbalance that the Alpujarra Almeriense in general and the municipality of Almócita in particular, a rural mountain area affected by desertification and the loss of social and human capital derived from the loss of economic attraction of the agricultural sector and the degradation of the mountain and its soils, are inserted. Against this backdrop, the Forest Project, in line with the long-term vision for rural areas of the EU and other strategic documents such as the 130 measures against the Demographic Challenge of the PRTR, seeks to launch an initiative that, from the local level, attracts population, innovation and new quality interests to the Alpujarra Almeriense.

Proyecto Bosque aims to investigate and establish a model of bioeconomy-reforestation reciprocity that is transferable to other territories with similar problems and characteristics, and to capitalize on local rural and agroecological knowledge, bringing it into contact with scientific research and giving visibility to the importance of conservation and protection of the rural world in our current context.

The main objective is to generate a network of initiatives and spaces that promote the bioeconomic and eco-social transformation of a rural territory affected by depopulation through the attraction of talent that takes advantage of natural resources, the capitalization of local knowledge in contact with technical-scientific knowledge and the participatory reforestation of the highly desertified Mediterranean forest, generating a bio-economy-reforestation feedback loop.

• Management structure
• Agroforestry research – Almócita as pilot area
• Reforestation
• Bioeconomy – Incubator and accelerator of bioeconomy projects
• Governance – Co-management, transfer of the model and local knowledge
• Communication and awareness plan
• Integration of gender aspects