On 16 November, LIFE Maronesa was highlighted in the presentation ‘Renovar con fuego: El fuego prescrito en la gestión del territorio’, given by its project manager, as a board member of the Prescribed Fire Association of Europe – Nodfyr Portugal, the entity invited by the Galician Society of Pastures and Forages to take part in one of the speaker panels at the 3rd Conference on ‘’Farming activities in the face of wildfires in the mountains‘’, which took place in Quiroga, Lugo.
The work of the LIFE Maronesa project was highlighted as an example of practices using pyro-herbivory for climate adaptation and mitigation and carbon sequestration. Prescribed fire preserves the soil, organic matter and grass rhizomes, at the same time it fertilises the soil surface and makes the vegetation regenerate more productively.
Prescribed fire allows the release of small amounts of carbon (over periods of 3/4 years) and increases soil productivity and sequestration potential with the complementary action of herbivores. It reduces the severity and frequency of summer fires: less carbon is released during the summer fire season, vegetation regenerates more quickly and the probability of soil consumption decreases.
