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Selection of goat breeds
18 March 2016
On March 8, LIFE Montserrat technical staff accompanied a delegation of farmers committed to the project in a trip to the Baix Camp and Priorat areas, in southern Catalonia. The objective was to visit some forest grazing projects underway in that area and see how different goat breeds behave to help decide which of them […]
Journal Club – Òdena Wildfire
20 August 2015
A Journal Club is a regular meeting of a group of people interested in discussing a particular topic. The Fire Ecology and Management Foundation Pau Costa Alcubierre (FPC) eventually organizes Journal Clubs to promote knowledge among expert groups and society at large. On September 5th will take place a field conference about Òdena Wildfire where […]
Òdena Wildfire Assessment
3 August 2015
Once again there has been a major forest fire near Montserrat. Much of the land affected had already burned 30 years ago in the great forest fire of 1986, which indicates that fires in this area are recurrent phenomena. Fire is a natural element strongly linked to Mediterranean ecosystems and therefore forest fires have always […]
Òdena Wildfire has affected the LIFE Montserrat project area
31 July 2015
On July 26th a forest fire started in the municipality of Òdena. In two days it has burnt almost 1300 hectares, mainly of bush and forest. Fortunately, there have been no personal injuries and it has all ended up with a significant extension of forest destroyed by fire. During the first two hours the fire […]
New agreement between public administrations to strengthen forest fire prevention
27 May 2015
The Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan government) and the Diputació de Barcelona (Provincial Council of Barcelona) have signed a partnership agreement on forest fire prevention and extinction that will also be useful to create new communication mechanisms concerning all actors involved. This new agreement updates the one achieved ten years ago and it will improve both […]
First Meeting of the Project’s Advisory Board
6 May 2015
An Advisory Board has been created in order to ensure adequacy and relevance of all intended actions and as an instrument to provide advice to the project’s technical staff so that the main lines of the project remain properly focused throughout its life span. The Advisory Board is composed of a small number of experts […]
Extensive grazing among activities developed under the Social Entrepreneurship Program in Catalunya
7 April 2015
A new business project dealing with extensive grazing has been presented in the scope of the Social Entrepreneurship Program in Catalunya. The project could help strengthen and make economically feasible extensive livestock holdings that have to face lower cattle productivity and longer fattening periods compared to those of intensive holdings, because of their productive model. […]
Forest management, an important issue in Catalunya
1 April 2015
The main Catalan Television Channel (TV3) broadcast at prime time on March 31st a feature on the present status of Catalan forests. The programme was focused on the lack of management received by forest areas during the last decades. It is not incidental. The increasing risk of major forest fires related to low quality forest […]
Forest management and use of forest biomass on TV news
21 February 2015
The Catalan Television Channel (TV3) presented in its daily news broadcast of 21st February 2015 a feature concerning forest management and forest biomass production and consumption in Catalunya focusing on a local forest owner placed in the project area. Ramon Soler, who is an active member of the Montserrat Forestry Owners Association (APFEM, one of […]
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