On 23rd and 24th of May 2016 a follow-up visit has been organised for the European Commission to examine the Bear Defragmentation LIFE project, with the attendance of Dorte Pardo-López, head of the LIFE programme in Spain in the General Directorate of Environment in the European Commission. After a work meeting in the FOP offices […]
On the 9th April volunteer activities got under way again with the planting of connectivity forests for the brown bear in the interpopulation corridor as part of the LIFE project. A group of 58 volunteers planted 300 autochthonous fruit trees in acquired terrains for the project in the Gete valley, in Cármenes municipality. Management teams […]
Over the last few months the dissemination activities of the project have been ongoing to raise awareness of the brown bears’ situation in the Cantabrian interpopulation corridor, the strategy to improve connectivity and also about the need to promote a good co-existence between the conservation of the bear and human activity in the territory. In […]
Newsletter 5 of the LIFE Bear Defragmentation project has been published. March 2016
From October to March, the second plantation campaign has been carried out in the LIFE Bear Defragmentation project. The work has been undertaken by 14 forest workers and one forestry foreman hired from among the local unemployed in the municipalities in the project area. A forestry company has also been contracted to do the hole-digging […]
Among the activities of the LIFE project is the purchase of disused agricultural lands for restoration. This makes possible the planting of connectivity forests and favours the demonstrative effect, allowing restoration and monitoring actions, voluntary activities, environmental education and other types of activities that contribute to disseminate the aims and outcomes of the project and […]
In November 2015 a special informative bulletin on the LIFE project has been published. With 24 pages in full colour and printed with the collaboration of the journal Quercus, 18,000 copies have been distributed, inserted into the November 2015 edition of this conservation magazine and another 2,000 issues are being distributed in the territory around […]
In October 2015 the second sowing campaign of the LIFE project has got under way. As in the previous campaign, a work team has been sourced from local unemployed people to carry out the planting. They have been directed by the field team and technicians on the project. In this second campaign, and bearing in […]
On Saturday 17th October, volunteers planted a part of the project’s acquired terrains in the Gete valley . The 20 volunteers taking part in the planting are employees from Gas Natural FENOSA. The work was undertaken within the framework of the energy company’s Corporate Environment Volunteer Programme and in collaboration with Fundación Global Nature. Gas […]
Newsletter 4 of the LIFE Bear Defragmentation project has been published.
