The United Nations General Assembly chose March 21 to celebrate the International Day of Forests each year under the slogan 'Forest Restoration', "which fits in with the invaluable experience and contribution of the Region of Murcia in this area for more than 130 years ", as indicated by councilor Ana Belén Martínez "In our municipality, the creation of the Northwest Forest Reference Center is planned to generate added value in agroforestry territories, where the need to manage restored forests would be highlighted by combining innovation and management with the experience of agroforestry owners", has added the mayor of Environment The Popular Group will ask in the Plenary of the month of October that is celebrated today the support of all the members of the Municipal Corporation of the Caravaca de la Cruz City Council so that the municipality is one of the places chosen to represent the Region of Murcia in the celebration of the events of the International Day of Forests 2021. "The United Nations General Assembly chose March 21 to celebrate the International Day of Forests each year, emphasizing the need to undertake local, national and international efforts to organize activities related to this issue," explained councilor Ana Belén Martínez. This year 2020, with the international theme 'Forests and diversity, too precious to lose', and in Spain, under the slogan 'Living forests, peoples with a future', tribute was going to be paid to the importance of forests for our territories and its inhabitants, highlighting the role that universal mountains play for the protection of biodiversity and to reverse depopulation, a challenge closely linked to the forest areas of Spain. "The celebration was prepared for March 20, 21 and 22 in the municipalities of Orea (Guadalajara) and Orihuela del Tremedal (Teruel), where the Region of Murcia would take the baton for 2021.
The state of alarm and the health situation Worldwide, it has caused this celebration to not take place and the celebration of 2020 has been postponed to 2022, but it is maintained that 2021 the national headquarters is the Region of Murcia ", reported the mayor. Ana Belén Martínez has reported that Caravaca de la Cruz would be a national forestry benchmark.
Different activities related to the care and protection of forest environments would be organized, always focused on the theme decided by FAO for 2021, where the chosen motto is 'Forest restoration', which fits into the invaluable experience and contribution of the Region of Murcia in this area for more than 130 years.
"In our municipality the creation of the Northwest Forest Reference Center is planned, to generate added value from the agroforestry territories,where the need to manage restored forests would be highlighted, combining innovation and management with the experience of agroforestry owners who represent the majority fraction of the forest territory of the Murcia Region ", has indicated Ana Belén Martínez, who has highlighted that all the Programming would be carried out by enhancing the semi-face-to-face modality to comply with all prevention measures against COVID-19.
Source: PP Caravaca de la Cruz