• Reforestation.

  44,500 trees reforested The 2000 campaign worked on 15 estates, with a total surface area of 72 hectares in Gran Canaria.

  122,350 trees expected to reforest We now have plans for reforesting 210 hectares in Gran Canaria, on 39 estates total.

  
  
  
• Other forestry work.

  During the 2000 campaign, we undertook ten projects contemplating other aspects, including forest nurseries, work done to prevent forest fires and the preparation of technical management plans, always on private land.

  
  
  
  

• And also...

  ...within our training and education area, we can highlight our collaboration providing practical experience to students from two cycles of the Forestry Training College and the Agricultural College, with students working with us for several months. The lessons in the qualified forestry worker module were given in the municipality of Tejeda.

  Once again, we collaborated with the 7th forestry seminar, involved in the dissemination of current issues of great concern in the sector. We were in charge of organising the first Technical and Cultural Seminar of the Almond Tree, with the collaboration of several local councils. On the other hand, in collaboration with the Institutional Cooperation Department of the Gran Canaria Island Council and the Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País, an "educational video" aid was prepared about the importance of woodland and the need to repopulate.

  Lara Castle (Fuerteventura)

  Different associations belonging to the Canary Island Scouts' Federation, as well as other associations, such as Tierra Viva and Aythamy, have requested our collaboration, providing them with advice related to environmental education and reforestation. Along the same lines, we are collaborating with extra-curricular university activities and the Global Senior association, supporting its course on Environmental Education.

  One of the goals of Foresta is to develop ways to make society aware of the need for reforestation and provide a framework in which people can fulfil their wish to participate as environmental volunteers with an important social impact.

  We would also like to mention two new programmes which are in the early stages. On the one hand, "One wood, one family", enabling families to plant and maintain woods and, on the other, "growing together", aimed at the school community.

  Research, always short of financial support, is an important part of our work and we hope to be able to undertake some of our projects in 2007.