He Floating forests projects proposes the implementation of environmental actions in the Cantabrian Eastern Mountain, within the framework of community strategies and plans and through the combination of bioeconomy conservation, natural environment and rural development.
With They will perform actions that favor rural development based on forest bioeconomy And this will be enhanced by various conservation and development models, in an area that has undergone a process of historical and quite radical deforestation, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Forests of Cantabria
The Minister of Rural Development, Livestock, Fisheries and Food, María Jesús Suinos, has held an encounter with the president of the Nature and Man Foundation, Carlos Sánchez, within the framework of the Round of Contacts that is maintaining with the conservation entities of the region in order to know their needs and study possible ways of collaboration to support the projects they develop in the region and power Promote knowledge and conservation of the natural environment.
Thus, they have reviewed some of the most prominent projects in which the foundation is working as the reforestation performance of ‘floating forests’ in the Pasiega and Eastern mountain and the recovery of Cantabrian Eak, which aims to generate interpretive and dissemination areas of The mountain and its unique elements, such as the Lunada slide, «an element Ethnographic related to forest reforestation and the woodcutter use that we intend to restore in a part of it ».
In this sense, the counselor has pledged to support this initiative through authorization, by her department, of the necessary permits to carry out the action of Restoration of an ethnographic element located In a public utility mountain It depends on the government of Cantabria.
The president of the Foundation has taken advantage of the meeting to give an account of the counselor of other projects of interest, such as the future creation of an area of interpretation and environmental education in liérganes, taking advantage of the proximity of the Fluviarium, dependent on the foundation and receiving About 20,000 visits a year, to transform an eucalyptal forest into an native forest with new alternatives to use Cantabrian meadow with species such as Castañares and Mycorrhized.
Wetland management
Susinos and Sánchez have also addressed possible via collaboration in wetland managementan area in which the Foundation has extensive experience in the Bay of Santander and now plans to carry out recovery projects in various areas of the Ría de Solía and the Marshs of Alday, with the elimination of invasive aquatic species.
In this sense, the counselor has reaffirmed the commitment of the Cantabria Government with the wetland conservation And proof of this is Cantabria’s participation in the new Life+ Wetlands Conservation Project, coordinated by the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge.
To do this, the Cantabria Government has included in this project the Natural Park of the Marshs of Santoña, Victoria and Joyel in order to work on the care and conservation of these forests and natural spaces and integrate actions nationwide to minimize the Loss and degradation factors of these fragile ecosystems.
A project in which the Nature and Man Foundation will be incorporated as a partner, as its president has advanced at the end of his meeting with the counselor, who has valued the fundamental role that the Foundation in Cantabria has been developed for more than 30 years, like the rest of conservation organizations, and has insisted on the need that the regional administration has to be allied in the impulse of the conservation of the environment and the improvement of the quality of life.