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Technical workshop and final conference of the LIFE Montserrat project
2 April 2019
9 and 10 May 2019 Món Sant Benet Thursday 9 May. Workshop (full day): Biodiversity, fire prevention and forest grazing activity in Mediterranean landscapes Presentations and debates concerning Mediterranean agroforestry systems management in the current socioeconomic and climate change context.. MORNING SESSION Biodiversity Presentations by: Joan Real (University of Barcelona) Constantí Stefanescu (Granollers Museum of […]
Urgent measures to help Montserrat’s Bonelli’s eagles
29 May 2017
Montserrat Natural Park technicians will be conducting extraordinary management actions to help the local pair of Bonelli’s Eagle (Aquila fasciata) feed their chick during the next critical weeks, before it can fly away from the nest. Concrete measures have been designed by a group of experts in management and monitoring of Bonelli’s Eagle including a […]
Annual Congress of the Spanish Society for the Study of Pastures
2 May 2017
The Spanish Society for the Study of Pastures (SEEP) organizes every year a Scientific Meeting where national and international experts meet and discuss on topics concerning pastures. The 2017 edition took place in Barcelona between April 25 and 28. Forest grazing experiences have taken a leading role in the 2017 meeting of the SEEP as […]
Fountain restoration in Sant Pau de la Guàrdia
27 April 2017
LIFE Montserrat and Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera through its VoluntariatxlaNatura programme have organised a working session on 19 April to restore the surroundings of an old fountain in Sant Pau de la Guàrdia. The fountain is located in a strategic area for forest fire prevention where grazing activity with donkeys has been recently introduced. The […]
Forest fire experts from different countries visit the LIFE Montserrat area
7 February 2017
The International congress on prescribed fires (ICOPFIRES) took place in Barcelona on 1-3 February, bringing together many fire professionals and experts from all over the world. The agenda of the Congress included a field trip with a prescribed fire executed by the GRAF team (Catalonia Fire Department). The plot selected was in the Puigventós area […]
2nd Meeting of the Project’s Advisory Board
2 December 2016
On November 22 the experts within the LIFE Montserrat Advisory Board met the Project’s Technical staff for the second working session since the beginning of the project in 2014. Right now the project is in the process of getting the livestock holdings under way. At this point, the meeting with the experts became a great […]
Technical workshop: What should be done in private forests?
13 October 2016
The Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF) and the Provincial Council of Barcelona (Diputació de Barcelona) organize a technical workshop focused on forest management and fire prevention. Among the objectives of this workshop is the presentation and discussion of the results obtained after years of monitoring forestry actions carried out by forest owners associations […]
First results of study on regeneration of the area burnt in 2015
16 August 2016
In July 2015 a forest fire burned over 1200 hectares near Montserrat, directly affecting the LIFE Montserrat project area. Since then, a public research centre focused on forest ecology and wildfires (CREAF) is working on the monitoring of regeneration in the burnt area. During the fire, forestry works that had been carried out in the […]
Seminar on goat cheese making
21 July 2016
The economic viability of livestock holdings involved in the project is an essential issue in order to achieve the objectives of the project. Without economic viability livestock activity in the forest areas can not be sustained, meaning that the maintenance of open areas and low fuel loads in strategic areas may be at risk. That […]
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