{"id":2368,"date":"2024-03-05T16:28:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T14:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramatsdefoc.org\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2024-07-26T10:52:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T08:52:04","slug":"prepast-a-project-to-enhance-grazing-in-the-pre-pyrenees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramatsdefoc.org\/en\/prepast-a-project-to-enhance-grazing-in-the-pre-pyrenees\/","title":{"rendered":"PREPAST, a project to enhance grazing in the Pre-Pyrenees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On March 1, the PREPAST project held its kick-off meeting in \u00c0ger (Lleida), attended by La Sabina Association<\/a>, the promoting entity, the city council of \u00c0ger<\/a> (Lleida), the Forest Science and Technology Center of Catalonia (CTFC)<\/a> and the Pau Costa Foundation (FPC)<\/a>, project partners. This first meeting served to introduce project partners, overview the project and plan the main actions to be carried out during the next months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PREPAST project aims to recover extensive grazing in the Pre-Pyrenees, one of the most abandoned areas of NE Spain, to promote bioeconomy, and ecological transition and prevent rural land abandonment and gender gap. More specifically, the project will work on prioritizing strategic areas where grazing can be promoted to prevent the risk of wildfires and will benefit scavenger birds such as the bearded vulture, due to flocks being an important source of food for them. The project will also pay special attention to the social recognition of the shepherd\u2019s profession and ecosystem services derived from grazing activities such as forest management or quality products from herds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramats de Foc<\/em><\/a> (Fire flocks), to enhance grazing for wildfire risk management, will recover livestock infrastructures such as corrals and watering holes or promote the presence of new shepherds or new herds in the study area, Montsec and Boumort mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s shocking the number of abandoned corrals and forest areas without management that abound in this area of \u200b\u200bthe Pre-Pyrenees. We will use knowledge from Ramats de Foc<\/em> project to work closely with local shepherds to revitalise their socioeconomic network, as well as we\u2019ll promote the contribution of herds to fire risk management.\u201d says Merl\u00e8s Mart\u00ednez, technician of \u201dRamats de Foc\u201d project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PREPAST will allow us to generate a positive impact by improving the local socioeconomic network and promoting biodiversity.  The project also foresees the creation of new jobs and opportunities for local shepherds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to ensure that extensive grazing projects get established in this area, but it is essential that they can continue because many of them are not viable in the long term due to a lack of resources. Consequently, PREPAST will work on a vision focused on continuity,\u201d says Merl\u00e8s Mart\u00ednez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PREPAST is supported by Fundaci\u00f3n Biodiversidad del Ministerio <\/a>para la Transici\u00f3n Ecol\u00f3gica y el Reto Demogr\u00e1fico (MITECO)<\/a> within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR)<\/a>, financed by the European Union \u2013 Next GenerationEU<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On March 1, the PREPAST project held its kick-off meeting in \u00c0ger (Lleida), attended by La Sabina Association, the promoting entity, the city council of \u00c0ger (Lleida), the Forest Science and Technology Center of Catalonia … Llegir m\u00e9s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","resize-featured-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramatsdefoc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramatsdefoc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramatsdefoc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramatsdefoc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramatsdefoc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramatsdefoc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramatsdefoc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramatsdefoc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ramatsdefoc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramatsdefoc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ramatsdefoc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}