8 July 2015
Watch this video presentation of the LIFE Montserrat project. A fast, easy and funny way to learn what the project is about.
22 June 2015
A new leaflet addressed to general public has been released as a first-contact material to explain the basic facts of the project. The leaflets are available in Catalan, Spanish and English and they have been put on display in key locations including relevant offices or information centres around Montserrat and surroundings. It is also available […]
9 June 2015
All LIFE projects must include monitoring actions to guarantee an adequate control of their own development. They consist of several indicators to be measured before, during and after the course of the project in order to evaluate its implementation. With respect to LIFE Montserrat, monitoring actions are focused on: efficiency and accomplishment of the grazing […]
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 […]
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 […]
6 May 2015
Several meetings are taking place during April and May 2015 in different municipalities within the project area with the aim of recruiting new members to the Association of Forest Owners of Montserrat Surroundings (APFEM). The meetings fit within project’s action A1 and should both become a boost to the APFEM and strengthen active cooperation among […]
6 May 2015
Preventing forest fires and minimizing their effects are critical objectives of the project. Specialised forest fire units within the Fire Department have analysed fire spread patterns and historical forest fires in Montserrat and they have determined two main scenarios concerning extreme forest fires: Convective forest fires that can spread from the western side of the […]
7 April 2015
One of the associated beneficiaries of the project, the Montserrat Area Forest Owner’s Association (APFEM) had its annual meeting in Marganell on 26th March, 2015. During the meeting a presentation of the LIFE Montserrat objectives and main actions envisaged for 2015 was conducted by Leire Miñambres, the Project Technical Coordinator from Diputació de Barcelona (coordinating […]
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. […]