The Tourist Sustainability Plan Sabea Guara Somontano, in collaboration with SEO/BirdLife and Farmers and local farmers, promotes the recovery of an ancestral practice: extensive and controlled grazing as a tool to prevent fires in high -risk areas and favor the biodiversity of the territory.
Eight farmers already work in strategic areas of Alquézar, Adahuesca, Bierge, Colungo, Naval and Statilla, cleaning and grazing land to reduce fuel vegetation and keep in good condition firewall, roads and other infrastructures against fire. To facilitate their work, debrises are carried out, fences are installed and supplemental food is provided in times of scarcity.
In addition, the project contemplates the creation of perimeter orchards next to the urban nuclei as natural barriers against the flames. Currently, there are already twenty pre -selected plots and new agricultural models are studied that foster the local product.
The Minister of Tourism of the Somontano region, Pilar Slyda, points out that “we are finding a very positive response from the farmers and ranchers in the area. The experience of SEO/BirdLife is helping us to add to add to adding and plots to this project, which aims to protect our rich environment with little invasive measures that have demonstrated its effectiveness in other territories. to promote tourism as if doing more sustainable, always establishing the care of the environment as a central axis, and these actions are a good vehicle to achieve it. ”
Another project underway
In parallel, the Vivos Olivares project is developed, already with samples and twenty farms selected in Estadilla, Bierge, Hoz and Costan, Colungo, Alquézar, Adahuesca and Abiego. Among their actions are to keep and handle the vegetation cover, restore traditional elements with native species and create infrastructure for fauna such as insect nests, nest boxes or ponds.
These measures seek to recover and improve the Biodiversity, ecologically connecting agricultural farms with natural spaces and increasing the profitability of traditional olive groves.
The Savor Sabean Plan has a million euros of European funds Next Generation and is part of the National Plan for Enogastronomy, integrated into the recovery, transformation and resilience plan. Includes a total of 15 actions that cover from accessibility and energy efficiency to patrimonial rehabilitation and the restoration of degraded environments
