FireShepherds is an Erasmus+ project with the aim to prepare next generations of shepherds in the management of extensive livestock with wildfire prevention purposes. The project has its basis on different common problems that the project regions are currently facing: the decrease of shepherds working with animals in extensive regime and the large wildfires that visit us every summer. For that reasons, it is very important to start managing the forest again, as it was done decades ago. To do so, a proper training of shepherds from the next generations is a key action if we want to achieve a fire resilient landscape.
Improvement of Open-Habitat Areas and Forest Management to Promote Livestock Farming as a Tool for Ecosystem Resilience in the Alta Garrotxa Protected Natural Area
The main objective of the project is to increase the resilience of the natural and socio-ecological ecosystems of Alta Garrotxa to the
