“Ramats de Foc” receives €100,000 from the Fondo Futuro Sostenible del BBVA
The Fondo Futuro Sostenible del BBVA helps to promote projects associated to social inclusion, dependency, the elderly and health and the environment, areas included in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In its 4th BBVA Solidarity Call for Proposals, the Pau Costa Foundation has been recognised with one of the national awards and will receive €100.000 to […]
MeFiTu arrives to Gran Canaria
May 28, Guiniguada (Las Palmas) – In the framework of the project “Vigías del Fuego” of Fènix Gran Canaria, we carried out the environmental education workshop MeFiTu. Children, aged between 7 and 12, from the scout group 105 Bentaya took part. The “Vigías del Fuego” project aims to bring the reality of the rural world […]
First phase of EGIF program in Chile
Climate change is affecting the frequency, geographic range, and intensity of wildfires. We are facing a global paradigm shift that requires a new learning framework in which to share experiences in fire prevention and extinction. From the knowledge and exchange of local work methodologies, we build knowledge and experiences that will help us to prevent […]
EduFire kicks off
The project held its kick-off meeting on April 12 at Can Jaumeandreu in Barcelona. This first meeting served to introduce EduFire’s partners, overview the project calendar and organisation, look at the different tasks, and plan the main actions to be carried out during the next months. EduFire Toolkit is an educational project coordinated by the […]
First action within the Interfaz project
The Interfaz project aims to provide knowledge and propose actions for a comprehensive management of the urban-forest interface in order to minimize fire risks. To do this, Interface collects data that allows the classification of the current and potential uses of the territory in the urban-forest interface, and thus propose protection actions, biomass management and […]
MeFiTu: Children of our Wildfire World
Writen by Harrison Raine, PCF Volunteer Forest health and wildfires, a concept so easy that it resonates with young school children. Mefitu, the educational mascot of Pau Costa Foundation for kids, was used to explain basic fire ecology, forest management, and the proper approaches to accounting for wildfires. During our day at the primary school […]
Become more resilients to Wildfires
The lessons learned in wildfire prone regions are key to develop more efficient landscape management for wildfire mitigation in Atlantic and Northern Europe The EWWF conference brought together 200 representatives of the wildfire community from 14 different nations. The meeting was held from November 20-21 in Cardiff. The core theme of the conference was in relation with fuel management. As described […]
