Forest area has increased 6% in the Region

After the commemorations of the International Tree Day, the Autonomous Region of Madeira defines strategies to prevent risks as fires, climatic alterations, plagues, illnesses and invaders.

The Plan intends to go beyond what was defined in the National Strategy of the Forests (ENF), approved by the Cabinet on the 17 of August 2006. The most important steps, in this plan, are the prevention of the erosion of the land and the regulation of the hydraulic regimen. This because, without the existing efficient covered vegetal area, the rocky risks of haul of soil masses and materials would be enormous, leading to catastrophes.

The Regional Strategy of the Forests counts on several other objectives, namely to create instruments of support to the order and management of the forest , to promote the expansion and regeneration of the patrimony, to preserve the ecosystems, to develop the organized breeding sheep, to explore and to preserve the synergetic and aquaculture resources in internal waters, to develop the scientific inquiry in the domains of fauna and flora, to develop the ecotourism and to improve the administrative and technician support installations.

This project gives continuity to the 121 projects of reforesting ; to the 2,512 hectares of forest area and to the 5.727.636 trees that, throughout these 32 years, increased the forest area in 6%.

Just Remember that this goal strategy is the preservation of Laurissilva, classified by UNESCO as Natural Patrimony of the Mankind, because Laurissilva constitutes a pillar for the regional economy that is based mainly in the tourism.

Source: www.dnoticias.pt - March 26, 2007