Eladio Santos, deputy delegate of the Government in Ourense, reaffirmed this Friday the commitment of the Government of Spain to sustainable mountains in the province, since the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge finances, through the Biodiversity Foundation, the TRANBIOFOR-NR bioeconomy project in Nogueira de Ramuín. He did so during a visit to Monte da Moura, where it is carried out on an initiative that is part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
Eladio Santos explained that this is an innovative project that is developed experimentally in Monte da Moura to try to recover chestnut forests by identifying the genotype of trees in order to make new chestnut plantations resistant to pests and climate changes. "With this project, the government shows once again its defense of the rural environment, since betting on the use of the mountain is very necessary," he said.
With respect, the subdelegate of the Government recalled the importance of developing actions that allow a management of resources in the context of climate change and considered that this action will be positive for a province that is repeatedly hit by forest fires. "Reforestation with native species is a strategic tool to prevent fires, since these trees are better adapted to the climate," he said.
Currently, the project has two points of action. On the one hand, the grafts extracted from the chestnut trees grow in a controlled way at the Forest Research Center of Lourizán, where the most resistant species will be chosen. At the end of this year, they will make a plantation of six hectares. On the other hand, professionals hired for the project cleave the areas of the mountain where there are more chestnut trees. They pruned old specimens that were dry and are already sprouting. To that point, the government subdelegate walked, who defended that it is a "very courageous" performance.
In this regard, Santos acknowledged the work of the City of Nogueira de Ramuín to materialize the project, in which the Forestry Research Center of Lourizán and the Association of Rural Women Echoes of Mora participate. She also expressly congratulated the project coordinator, Natalia Táboas.