LIFE CANADAS
Reconnecting spaces of the Natura 2000 Network with living sheeptrails
An alliance to return the life to the livestock
Who we are
An alliance to return the life to the livestock
Transhumance is a form of livestock management extensive, consisting in the displacement of seasonal livestock between areas of high or higher latitude, designed to summer pastures, and low lying areas or in lower latitude, in which the cattle spend the winter, following regular routes established. In the mediterranean region, transhumance is a practice that is highly adaptive, since it facilitates the coupling between the activities of grazing and the seasonal peaks of productivity of pastures, thus allowing an optimal exploitation of the existing resources, as well as the possibility of avoiding the most critical periods: summer drought in the lowlands and snow winter in the mountain areas.
The historical importance of livestock farming in Spain and other countries of the Mediterranean basin explains that they have developed an extensive network of VVPP. The desirability of protecting the movements of the herds led to the beginning runners reserved for the cattle in almost all of the iberian peninsula. The VVPP were, therefore, free from the action of the plough, constituting reservoirs or semi-natural habitats that have remained in force since the FIFTEENTH century. In Spain, it is estimated that the network reaches more than 125,000 km in length, which represents an area of 421,000 ha, roughly 1% of the area of the country
LIFE CANADAS PARTNERS
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Since its foundation in 1976, the Department of Ecology of the universidad autónoma de madrid is a research group of reference in Spain, with a recognized national and international reputation in the study of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in the mediterranean landscapes.
The Directorate-General of Agriculture, Livestock and Food is the competent body in the field of management of the Network of drovers Roads from the Community of Madrid. To do this, include in your chart the Area of Livestock, which is responsible for the management, maintenance and conservation of such a network.
The General Directorate of Natural Environment and Biodiversity of Castilla-La Mancha is the competent body in matters of protection, conservation and management of the livestock routes of said Autonomous Community.
The Spanish Society of Ornithology, it is the environmental NGO leader in Spain. Founded in 1954, its mission has remained the same since then: with bird-like flag, to conserve the biodiversity with the participation and involvement of the society.
Arises in 2010 as an entity that develops cultural strategies on the rural and links art, territory and social change through the agriculture, publishing, training, among others.
ENTITIES THAT COLLABORATE IN THE PROJECT
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Association that promotes the transhumance and the recovery of the national network of canadas
Cooperative that performs trashumancias and grazing urban in partnership with Field In
Local municipal government
NGOS, state environmental protection
Professional union agricultural Community of Madrid
Company created in 1997 under the principles of rational exploitation and ecology of the earth and the development of organic food quality faithfully linked to the ecosystem. Luck Ampanera focuses its efforts on the development of different types of fermented milks, yoghurts and cheeses from goat.
National association of pastoralist and livestock in extensive whose goal is to raise the visibility of their profession, to preserve the extensive cattle-raising, and keep alive the rural environment.
Ethnographic museum dedicated to the transhumance
Federation of associations of pastors from different places of the Spanish State
Association that advocates extensive animal production, understood as the set of livestock production systems that exploit efficiently the resources of the territory with the species and breeds appropriate to combine production with sustainability and generate environmental services and social.
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Part of this project and provides follow-up measures of conservation/restoration on the structural connectivity and functional that provide the livestock