LIFE VAIA – WORKS IN QUIROGA, SPAIN

THE WORKS IN QUIROGA

The Galician site of the LIFE VAIA project is located in a forested area within the municipality of Quiroga (Lugo, Galicia, NW Spain).

The forest area was burned in August 2021, destroying over a thousand hectares of forest. The former forest was composed of Pinus spp planted several decades ago. The pilot sites will include a variety of perennial and non-perennial forest trees, anexperiment with medicinal/aromatic/honey-producing plants, and a series of beehives.

Each pilot site and its respective control will be situated in both south and north directions to assess the adaptability of different tree species to be planted. The work began in the autumn of 2022, and the evaluation to be conducted will encompass tree growth as well as mortality rates in both orientations. Meanwhile, the medicinal/aromatic/honey-producing plants will be analyzed for subsequent planting in the pilot sites.

LIFE VAIA AT AGRIMONT WITH VENETO AGRICOLTURA

POST VAIA: AS THE FOREST GROWS, FOREST GARDENS THRIVE Saturday, March 25, 2023, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM in Longarone

With Life VAIA, we participated in the AGRIMONT event, which saw significant attendance, where we discussed the following topics:

• Restoring forest cover in the pilot areas of the VAIA Project: new approaches and strategies to promote post-disturbance renewal. Presented by Davide Marangon, Department of TeSAF, University of Padua.
• Forest gardens in the VAIA project: cultivating biodiversity in the new growing forest. Presented by Roberto Fiorentin, Veneto Agricoltura.