Last month, the team of mosaic project technicians began to travel the two regions. Have been visiting one by one companies, municipalities and individuals, who have been in contact with this initiative, through the web or the city councils themselves. In their work agendas they had more than 50 concrete proposals, divided into the different tools designed.

In them there is everything from grazing initiatives, transformation projects, farms, forestry, or municipal projects to offer their public lands to the mosaic. There are initiatives that could affect large areas of more than 1,000 hectares, and more modest ones of one hectare. There are in advanced process by experienced promoters, and other more incipient people who want to enter the field for the first time. It is still early to make a map of conclusions, given that any of these initiatives needs planning and their own execution procedures, but we want with this article to highlight the undoubted expectation that is being mobilized. If we think that we are just beginning the project, and that other projects are added every month, we can get an idea of ​​the extent to which the idea of ​​the mosaic is permeating the population. Shortly we will offer on this website a map with the projects in progress.

It is not intended that the landscape of the regions of Hurdes and Sierra de Gata, is transformed from one day to another, into a tapestry of productive spaces and discontinuous mountains. That image as an imaginal vision is a formidable challenge and with the current realities unattainable. We would need a large involvement of the population in field work, a considerable increase in the rural population, break the tendency to depopulation, attract new neighbors, change some laws or make them more flexible, promote new incentives for agricultural development, in short, a sort of metanoia in current state and local policies. But we would not be surprised if part of this path, even that final image, could be traversed by the impulse of the fait accompli. If the proposals that reach us, are increasing, if some initiatives prosper and take root in the territories, if the contagious effect is linked, we will be approaching a different reality to the current one. It is already a great advance that the agro-livestock development is contemplated as another tool in the proposals of fire prevention. Another great advance is that the administration is increasingly aware of the problem of rural abandonment and that the agrarian sector must be reinforced. We said in the video “ The fire that made us react r” that to walk a thousand kilometers you have to take a first step. To date we have more than 50 steps underway …