After the Andalusian Forest Plan in 1989 and the Forest Law of 1992, The time has come to update the strategy of the Andalusian government regarding its forest management.
For this, a new Forest Law of the region, whose writing will have the advice of the public administration, forestry experts, private companies and institutions and citizens.
According to the Environmental Portal of Andalusia, “it must attend not only to the classics principles of effectiveness and efficiencybut also the most current administrative simplification, incorporating the advances in forestry sciences and techniques to this new strategic vision of the sectorfor the sake of rural socioeconomic development and the conservation of our mountains.”
Its objective will be to reinforce the conservation of forests, as well as people and non-forestry activities; It also seeks to promote better use of natural resources and the creation of a quality job for the local community.
Responding to current challenges
This is how he expressed it general director of Forest Policy and Biodiversity of the Department of Sustainability and Environment of the Government of Andalusia, Juan Ramón Pérez Valenzuela during the conference ‘Sustainable industrialized construction. A driving industry for Andalusia’, organized by the ‘LIFE Wood for Future/Madera para el Futuro’ project, which took place in the city of Granada, last September.
In addition to the above, Pérez Valenzuela highlighted the importance of supporting privately owned forests through fiscal and administrative incentives and highlighted the value of the public forest domain as an instrument to protect the rich Andalusian natural heritage.
“The new regulations will cover aspects that affect the entire society. This new legislation aims to update the forest legal framework, which has been without significant modifications for more than 30 years, to address current problems such as water scarcity, the increase in forest fires, the deflation of forest products and the preservation of biodiversity. “, he shared.
The new regulations also will promote the protection of cataloged forests and manage the Improvement Fundwhich is responsible for the conservation of public forests.
Just a few days ago, the Governing Council began the necessary procedures for the launch of this new legislative project which will try to respond to all the demands of sectors as varied as business or environmentalism.