The appropriation of private communal neighborhood forests. A hot situation
Julio Ruiz Cagigal
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 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 […]
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 […]
As comunidades de montes de Santa Mariña do Rosal e de Tabagón, ambas do municipio do Rosal, veñen de recuperar máis 250 hectáreas de monte en distintos proxectos de restauración de parte da superficie que se viu afectada polos incendios forestais acontecidos no ano 2013. Nun daqueles lumes, por exemplo, viuse afectada a práctica totalidade […]
As comunidades de montes de Cepeda e de Amoedo, ambas do concello de Pazos de Borbén (Pontevedra), sufriron de cheo un dos grandes incendios forestais de outubro do 2017, pois o lume calcinou por completo a superficie de ambos montes, 190 hectáreas no caso de Cepeda e 372,5 no de Amoedo. Desde entón, ambas comunidades […]
A Comunidade de Montes Veciñais en Man Común de Zamáns sufriu grandes perdas no seu patrimonio natural cos incendios de outubro de 2017, cando 102 hectáreas do seu monte veciñal foron afectadas polo lume. Dende aquel momento, a Comunidade formulouse a restauración das áreas afectadas, tratando de acadar a implicación tanto da Administración e de […]
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 […]
As comunidades de montes son a miúdo un elemento dinamizador do rural galego, sendo o catalizador de diferentes iniciativas que melloran a vida dos veciños das parroquias nas que se encadran estes montes…