In Pinofranqueado, different actors of the territory met, to expose a shared concern and that is becoming the great brake to implement the Mosaic project. It is the labyrinth of the administration itself, with laws not designed to fight against large fires, nor to provide solutions to the serious problem of the demographic death of..
Baldios de Villamiel, a year later.
About two years ago, a proposal from the Villamiel Barrens Association came to the Mosaico project. Requesting a study that would allow the transformation of 50 hectares in a state of abandonment into a productive mountain and better defended for fires. From this meeting we give testimony in the video: vimeo.com/223572793. Now, the projected works..
La Jara as an economic resource
La Jara is a viable possibility to start an endeavor in the region. Carlos Pérez is currently doing a thesis on this plant, which grows abundantly in our mountains.
Plans to protect the villages
So that the towns are defended of possible fires, the peri-urban plans have been elaborated, around 400 m. of the urban helmet. We visited the works that have been carried out in Descargamaria and the area of Casares de Hurdes.
Baldios de Villamiel forest project
The Baldios de Villamiel Society contacted the Mosaic to see what they could do on 50 hectares of their land, in order to prevent fires and improve their forests. In this video we show the project that has been proposed.
Downloadmaria Monte Protector
Proposing the figure of Monte Protector for Descargamaria, is to date the most important step of the Mosaic project, for three main reasons: Due to its strategic location in an area of great danger of catastrophic fires, because it affects more than 4,000 hectares of farms largely abandoned, by unanimous agreement between the neighbors and..
Mosaic forest tool
We have followed Javier Navalpotro, a forestry technician, during a working day. In the video, he tells us, firsthand, what his work consists of and how it affects the global mosaic strategy. Listening to their testimony, forest owners or municipal managers with forests under their charge, may know better how to benefit from this service.
Grouping Castañar de Hoyos
It arises with the impulse of the Mosaic Project, the Association of Owners of Castañar de Hoyos, with the objective of organizing and revitalizing a historical territorial zone, which deserves to recover with the collaboration of the authorities of Extremadura, the beauty that once characterized it