Forest: Portugal 74 municipalities will plant more than 91 thousand indigenous trees

The benefits that forests provide not restricted to sites where the trees are present. To be interconnected with other natural systems they provide global benefits for all mankind.

In this way, a set of entities such as Quercus (Institute of nature conservation and forestry), the National Association of counties and the Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) established a partnership for Common Forest project, whose main purpose is the construction of a forest whose benefits extend to current and future generations.

So, the next day, 23 November, the Association started Portugal (LOVE Portugal), in partnership with the Common Forest will hold the initiative be afforested 2013 Portugal, where 74 Portuguese municipalities in the North and South, will plant more than 91 thousand trees of native species.

The aim, according to the draft, is "to promote and encourage the creation of a forest with high levels of biodiversity and ecological services, get the knowledge and the trees to people and institutions that are willing and able to intervene". The initiative thus aims to involve the community, especially the younger ones, as well as promote the creation of local networks and structures of indigenous Portuguese forest recovery.

Among the species available for this year's Edition of the Common Forest and, consequently, the Forest Portugal, include the holm oak, cherry-brava, Portuguese oak, Pyrenean oak, strawberry tree, Oleaster, Cork oak, alder, ash, black-Borrazeira, white willow, Elm, and Poplar.

Although the 2013 Portugal be afforested if restrict a single day, the municipalities can plant the remaining trees until March 2014. The species for planting are provided by the State forest nurseries. In total, will be transferred 91,069 31 different species trees.

Once the initiative is decentralised, the LOVE Portugal suggests that participants in each municipality the survey and identification of local indigenous trees, what can be done through hiking, and that, subsequently, the planting of native trees or woods for replanting of the species in the gardens of the cities.

See the approved list, so far, the municipalities and tree planting.

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