Los private mountains And their recovery today has the favor of the Reconcta project, which seeks to boost the protection and guarantee of these natural spaces In line with the Spanish forest strategy horizon 2050.
Many people do not know, but More 70% of the forest area that there are throughout Spain is privately owned. Of this percentage, thousands of hectares impoverish their wealth without active management with the consequent increase in fire risk, loss of biodiversity and desertificationas indicated in this initiative.
On the other hand, in this public strategy it is pointed out that forests and other forest lands in Spain face serious and growing threats due above all to the negative effects of global changes, both from the point of view of the climate as of factors socioeconomic.
Reconnects: for the defense and recovery of national private mountains
Spain faces a silent but crucial challenge: the abandonment of its private mountains. More than 70% of the national forest area is privately ownedbut thousands of hectares languish without active management, increasing the risk of fire, loss of biodiversity and desertification. To reverse this situation, the Reconnect project is working, in line with the Spanish Forestry Horizon 2050 strategy and seeking revalize the owners with their farms, restore abandoned land and activate new economic opportunities Ruralales. Reconcta has such outstanding partners as Global Nature Foundation, Aragón appointment and the City Council of Cuenca through its UFIL Cuenca project.
In the forestry strategy it is pointed out that forests and other forest lands in Spain face increasing threats due to global changes, both climatic and socioeconomic. Among these, a process of abandonment motivated by various causes stands out. This abandonment contributes to accumulation of biomass, increasing the risk of forest fires and loss of biodiversity.
Thus, in line with the climatic and biodiversity objectives of the European Union, this strategy proposes to restore ecosystems and promote a bioeconomy based on sustainability. And in that challenge, The implication of private holders is essential.
«Forests are much more than trees; They are life, water, oxygen, culture and future and it is essential Cuenca, Soria and Teruel, areas punished by rural depopulation
Private forest property mountains
The Spanish Forest Plan 2022-2032 recognizes that a significant percentage of the forest area in Spain is privately owned. However, many of these properties have challenges such as the lack of active management, ignorance of the ownership and absence of sustainable forest planning instruments. To address these problems, The plan proposes specific measures:
- Improve knowledge of forest property: It seeks to identify and update information on ownership and the legal and forestry state of private mountains.
- Promote measures for abandoned property management: It is proposed to enable the declaration of forest properties in a state of abandonment and with an unknown owner for its qualified precautionary management.
- Dynamize private forest property: Initiatives for concentration or grouping of forest lands are promoted and promotes the elaboration of a law of members of partners
Given these remains, the project offers technical support and free advice To facilitate the regularization of properties, design sustainable management plans and promote activities such as the use of wood, mushrooms, resin or beekeeping. In addition, it contributes to reinforce fire prevention by recovering traditional uses such as grazing. “Each managed farm is an avoided fire, a revived town, one more piece in the puzzle of a more resilient planet,” they emphasize.
Reconnect launches a call to action and for this, it appeals to the “Guardians of the Forest”, people who are owners, managers or citizens committed to the environment or rural, can help find the owners and encourage actions in the mountains abandoned today.