The appropriation of private communal neighborhood forests. A hot situation
Julio Ruiz Cagigal
Tag Archives: comunidades de montes
The Forestry Association of Galicia proposes that the reform of the Law on communal woodlands should reinforce the imprescriptibility of communal land.
The Forestry Association of Galicia presented this month to the Forestry Council its contributions to the Draft White Paper on the reform of the regulation of Galicia's communal forests (MVMC), which is intended to serve as a guide to framing the reality of these forests before legislating on them. The document submitted includes […]
The Forestry Association of Galicia emphasises that community woodlands are an “inalienable” form of property.”
The Galician Forestry Association (AFG) warns that the Government of Galicia is raising a debate that has long been settled, namely the imprescriptibility of community woodland, a feature upheld by both the current legislation and the relevant case law, as well as by the Spanish Constitution itself. The recent statements by the president […]
The AFG is drawing up a set of proposals for the review of the Law on communal forests.
Within the framework of the review process of the Law on communal forests, which the Xunta de Galicia is undertaking, the Galician Forestry Association has scheduled a series of meetings with community forest associations to present its proposals. These proposals, which reflect the concerns of the communal forests that are members of the Association, will be put to debate […]
The community woodlands of O Rosal register the first projects in the Baixo Miño region with the Ministry of Ecological Transition's CO2 Absorption Register.
The montes communities of Santa Mariña do Rosal and Tabagón, both in the municipality of O Rosal, have recently restored more than 250 hectares of woodland through various restoration projects on part of the area affected by the forest fires that took place in 2013. In one of those fires, for example, almost the entire area […]
The communities of Cepeda and Amoedo, affected by one of the major fires of 2017, have registered the restoration of their community woodlands in the Ministry for Ecological Transition's CO2 Absorption Register.
The mountain communities of Cepeda and Amoedo, both in the municipality of Pazos de Borbén (Pontevedra), were hit hard by one of the major forest fires of October 2017, as the blaze completely scorched the surface of both mountains, 190 hectares in the case of Cepeda and 372.5 in that of Amoedo. Since then, both communities […]
The Zamáns Community of Mountaineers is betting on decarbonisation.
The Zamáns Community of Common Forest Land suffered significant losses to its natural heritage in the October 2017 fires, when 102 hectares of its communal woodland were affected by the blaze. Since then, the Community has set out to restore the affected areas, seeking to involve both the authorities and […]
Atios Community Forest: Walking Towards the Diversification of the Forest
The Community of Common Ownership of the Atios Common Forest, located in the parish of the same name in the municipality of Porriño (Pontevedra), has an area of 333.14 hectares, of which 12 per cent (22.64 hectares) are covered with native broadleaves. This community woodland attests to its sustainable forest management through FSC and PEFC certification […]
The Paraños CMVMC. An example of the valorisation of ethnographic heritage.
Mountain communities are often a driving force in rural Galicia, serving as the catalyst for various initiatives that improve the lives of the residents of the parishes in which these mountains are situated…
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