The Coordinadora Ecoloxista d’Asturies have warned that they see the prevention measures regarding forest fires as insufficient in the face of the 24/25 campaign that has been presented in the Forest Council that was held in Oviedo today.
It is intended to be approved in the Annual Prevention, Surveillance and Extinction Plan of the Principality of Asturias for the 2024-2025 campaign of the Ministry of Development, in a meeting of the Forestry Council that depends on the Ministry of Rural Environment, all of this is done without the Principality board the structural problem of the mountains of our territorywhich is the excessive proliferation of monospecific eucalyptus and pine plantations and arson.
Fires are a serious problem that must be seriously addressed.
It does not assume the prohibition of new eucalyptus plantations and forgets about a tool, such as livestock boundary in burned areas. Essential for the prevention of forest fires intentional to obtain pasture, as is done throughout the rest of Spain.
Nor does he dare to the elimination of this type of plantations in the security zone In inhabited areas, it does not even accompany it with aid for the voluntary elimination of these crops.
We must remember that every year in Asturias we suffer from the scourge of forest fires. The investigations by Seprona and BRiPAS have shown that behind the fires of recent years there were neither terrorists nor organized gangs of any kind as the Principality wanted us to believe, with the aim of divert attention for their inaction and their disastrous fire prevention and fighting policies in the last legislatures.
The reasons for the fires remain the same as always, something that we have been denouncing for years, since that is what the official data says: the 80% of the fires in Asturias are for the generation of pastures. On the other hand, the Government continues to play tricks and intentionally lie so as not to face reality, so as not to go to the root of the problem.
We are faced with yet another irresponsibility of a government that, unlike what happens in Galicia or Portugal, here they continue allowing the plantations of more forests with pyrophilous species without control, despite the severity of the forest fires we are experiencing.
According to Ecoloxista d’Asturies for rise to the occasion of the climate crisisit is necessary for the authorities to take courageous and committed measures that are useful and effective when it comes to guarding the territory whose protection the entire society has entrusted to them.