The work of environmental recovery among Cantabrian localities of Ramales and Ruesga del Monte de la Sierra. This was possible thanks to a budget line of 360,000 euros allocated for this purpose.
The Minister of Development, Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment of Cantabria, Roberto Media, visited today the start of the works of environmental recovery of Monte de la Sierrabetween the municipalities of Ramales and Ruesga, which affect 45.67 hectares and in which 359,481 euros will be invested thanks to European funds.
This is the second of the actions included in the five projects that the Ministry of the Environment will carry out in the coming months, before mid-2026, to restore the degraded and mining areas of the Autonomous Community and which affect 198 hectares, with an investment of 12 million euros. “Some work which will allow benefit 7 municipalities and recover 5 emblematic spaces of the region“, he clarified.
“This is one of the outstanding issues that we saw when we arrived at the ministry,” said Media, who also highlighted his commitment to “the good use of public funds“, since the projects available at that time, allocated to these funds, did not meet the Ministry’s requirements to benefit from this position.
For this reason, he explained, what we did “was to reach an agreement with the mayors to be able to take advantage of these funds”, a gesture with which he thanked the Corporations of Ruesga and Ramales for the Victoria for their collaboration with General Management. of the Environment so that “ This project was a reality and the funds were not lost.«.
Environmental Recovery of Mount Sierra
In the case of the Ramales and Ruesga action, it is a project of ecological restoration and forest hydrological correction in Monte de la Sierra, whose execution period is 9 months, and which is closely linked to A reforestation of the area with native forest species such as holm oaksbirches or willows in more humid and waterlogged areas.
It will be completed by the establishment of herbaceous and woody species rapid colonization and covering power by sowing a mixture of grasses and other woody species. The installation of temporary infrastructure to reduce runoff is also planned with the aim of reducing the erosion capacity of the area.
For his part, the mayor of Ramales de la Victoria, César García, assured that the environmental restoration of this repeatedly burned mountainis an opportunity for its regeneration and to stop the amount of water that reaches our rivers due to erosion, sometimes causing floods like those recorded repeatedly in the industrial area of Ampuero.
An opinion shared by the municipal councilor of Ruesga, Jesús Ramón Ochoa, for whom it is a “very deforested” area due to fireswe therefore thank the ministry for its “sensitivity” when it came to including this area in this project, and in this way, “we managed to do something to improve the environment«.
The media recalled the four other projects that will be launched during this period environmental recovery plan for your departmentwhich have already started with the environmental recovery of the slope of Mount Suances, with an investment of almost 429,000 euros, and which will be complemented by the restoration of the land of the old Reocín mine, in Torrelavega and Cartes (8.7 million euros). ‘euros); THE recovery of the biodiversity of the Solvay quarry in Cuchía (2.3 million), in the municipality of Miengo; and, finally, the recovery of agricultural land in Monte La Picota, in Piélagos, to which 428,000 euros will be allocated.
The event, in addition to the general director of the Environment, Alberto Quijano, brought together various members of the two municipal corporations and technicians from the Department of the Environment of Cantabria.
The action carried out in Monte de la Sierra is part of a set of five projects aimed at restoring degraded and mining areasin which the Ministry of the Environment will invest more than 12 million euros.
