The Regional Minister of Rural Affairs, José González, held a meeting with his counterpart from Castilla y León, Juan Carlos Suárez-Quiñones, to create a common front for both communities in the forestry sector. They question the management criteria of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, with controversies such as that of the wolf, and accuse it of being outside the interests of people who live in rural territories
The Department of Rural Affairs has just held a strategic meeting with the Minister of the Environment of Castilla y León, Juan Carlos Suárez-Quiñones, with whom they addressed the implementation of a common front to address key issues in the sector at the state level. forest level. Also participating in the meeting, on the Galician side, were the general director of Forest Planning and Management, José Luis Llano, and the director of the Galician Forestry Industry Agency, Jacobo Aboal.
The meeting addressed the need for a change in the management of the territory, an idea that we want to convey in a future Forest Management and Forestry Congress, to be held in Galicia, where “all those administrations that, like ours, would like to Give the importance it deserves to the forestry sector,” González advanced.
carbon credits
In this context, José González reaffirmed the Xunta’s defense of voluntary carbon credit systems, as a fundamental way to mitigate climate change and also as a way to ensure the sustainable future of this productive field. González added that both communities are dissatisfied with the state rule that restricts the surfaces registered in the voluntary carbon purchases to burned areas (or to mountains that have been cleared of trees since 1989), since it is considered that this may have a “callback effect.” ” into the fire.
Galicia and Castilla y León advocate a change to the carbon credit system. That is why Galicia is working on its own registry of carbon credits, with regulations that also allow taking into account the additional carbon captured by masses subject to forestry management, an aspect on which studies are being carried out. The fight against forest fires was another of the issues addressed at the meeting.
Wolf management
On behalf of the Government of Castilla y León, Suárez-Quiñones criticized the management of the wolf by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, since the total protection of the species – he noted – is to the detriment of communities such as Galicia and Castilla.
Regarding all these issues, José González recommended to the Ministry of Ecological Transition that “it is good to ask whoever is in the territory how they feel and how they think things should be done.”
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