to turn the threat of large forest fires into an opportunity for rural development and nature conservation.
A Forest Bioeconomy project in the Pyrenees
The mission of the Bio For Piri project is to promote forest bioeconomy through forest management as a solution to two of the great challenges of the area: forest fires and the demographic challenge.
The project started at the beginning of 2024 and will deploy its actions until December 2025 in two pre-Pyrenean geographical areas: Alinyà, in Lleida (Catalonia); and Aínsa-Sobrarbe, in Huesca (Aragón).
The project’s actions will focus on 3 lines of work:
- Forest fire prevention and forest management
- Boosting the forest bioeconomy
- Knowledge transfer
6 entities united to turn the threat of wildfires into an opportunity
The threat The abandonment and precariousness of the primary sector, added to the current climatic context, has increased the risk of a major forest fire in the Pyrenees.
Due to the dimension and impact of this potential fire – it could burn from Navarra to Girona – we can affirm that this is one of the most sensitive and vulnerable areas of the Iberian Peninsula.
The opportunity From the Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture, together with five other entities, we promote Bio For Piri, a project that is developing a series of actions to reduce the risk of a large forest fire in the Pyrenees and, at the same time, turn these tasks of prevention and forest management into opportunities for rural development and nature conservation through the forest bioeconomy.
Bio For Piri is supported by the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), financed by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
