In the course of the second day of the 26 Spanish Congress of Ornithology Organized by SEO/Birdlife, the Round table related to the restoration regulations and its application in our country.
Under the conclusions it is clear that further of recognizing the many positive and pre -existing restoration -experiencesThe challenge is that this new regulation is not used as ‘palliative’ in the violation of the Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive.
Ornithology in Spain
The second day of 26 Spanish Congress of Ornithology An extensive scientific program of the environmental organization presents, but it also has sessions in which issues of maximum relevance are tackled to The preservation of birds and biodiversity.
One of them has been The round table recovery regulations and its application in Spain Moderated by Sofia Capellán, Senior Conservation Office or Birdlife International, and that Rafael Hidalgo, General Directorate Biodiversity, Forests and Desert Forming of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge; With Alba García Pose, project coordinator of the International Foundation for Ecosystem Restoration – Fire; And with Felipe González, Delegeer the NGO in Cantabria.
The recent approval by the European Union of the Regulation on the restoration of nature is a crucial miles efficient. Above all, it can’t be The standard that restores the relegation of nature Without taking into account the other guidelines that, of the origin, have to solve the loss of biodiversity, such as the Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive.
The regulation sets ambitious recovery objectives, including the recovery of 20% of the EU terrestrial and marine ecosystems for 2030and the total recovery of broken ecosystems by 2050. Moreover, the elimination of barriers and the improvement of hydraulic connectivity in at least 25,000 kilometers of rivers, the reversal of the deterioration of the population and diversity of pollinators and the recovery of, of forest and from forest and Urban ecosystems. The Regulation also includes improvement objectives in various ecological indicators of agricultural ecosystems and measures to promote marine recovery through adequate fishing management.
Given this scenario, one of the most relevant issues to keep in mind that the lack of information about the state in which habitats are found; And then apply an effective, binding restoration that is integrate in the rest of sectoral policy and guarantee that what is being restoredDon’t relegate later. Ecological restoration is established as one of the best tools, not only to repair the damage to nature, but as an opportunity to include huge surfaces of affected country in new spaces for biodiversity.
National Restoration Plan
As mentioned by Rafael Hidalgo, of the general directorate biodiversity, forests and desert formation of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic challenge, the most important thing is to make a common diagnosis with the participation of the participation of the participation of All autonomous communities to know degraded habitats. The National Restoration Plan must say where to act and with what concrete measures.
«It is necessary to know which sudden and which types of habitats recovery need in terms of quality. This forces to identify the factors that They cause relegation of ecosystems. The measures must solve what causes breakdown and the level of detail must be very specific because it is not a strategy, it is a plan, ”Hidalgo has underlined.
On the other hand, the person responsible for the ministry clarified that they work so that the plan includes everything Actions that the autonomous communities must perform And that to achieve this they have a working group all administrations. This is good news for the NGO, because it would happen that autonomous communities have autonomous restoration plans.
Similarly, Hidalgo has announced that a repository will be developed with all the recovery initiatives such as those developed experiences and work already done, so that the application is the most consistent and Have new projects where it is more effective, directly reversed in an improvement of biodiversity, First and final objective of these new European regulations.
For the environmental organization, the challenges to implement these new regulations will be a sufficient financing obligation and sufficient training level between agents Assigned to this task so that the practice of ecological recovery is done with high levels of strictness and good practices, but especially to include this discipline throughout society.