EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND Tree - tapping of Pinus As a Good Practice A traditional way of protecting the forest

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As a Good Practice

A traditional way of protecting the forest

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Workshop "Prevention" Frederikssund-Halsnæs, Denmark, 19-22 Sept 2011

Τhe processes of resin workers that offers protectionΤhe processes of resin workers that offers protection

Its an action plan for prevention that aims at:

Reduction of biomass and the parallel reduction in the risk of forest fires

Guarding the forest at the period of time, that they collect resin

Understory cleaning and light pruning the area, that they collect, up to 20%

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Goals and achievementsGoals and achievements

• Cultivation and management of ecosystem

• Reduction of the biomass and simultaneously of the risk of forest fires

• Resin production and by-products

• Development of nature awareness spirit and ecological sensitization, by making people and their social surroundings, approach the natural wealth of forests

• Improvement of human accessibility to forest areas and promotion of the benefits that nature has to offer to humanity.

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Stakeholders involvedStakeholders involved

• The Forest Administration of the county of Lesvos

• The Ministry of Environment and Climate Changes.

• Forest owners (public and private)

• Forestry Cooperative Workmanship

• Fire Prevention Volunteer associations

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Implementation stageImplementation stage

• Implementation of research and composition of managing plans by the Forestry Administration of our Region, as well as by free researchers

• Approval and authorization of these projects by the relevant authority of the Region.

• Pilot practicing of these projects and supervision of their progress

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Economic contextEconomic context

• Resin production could reach to 6-7 tons per year

• Provide seasonal work for over 70 residents

• Reduce the costs of the state for the protection

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social context social context

• Forestry and Ecological Awareness

• Creation of a social network

• Improve the living status

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Technical contextTechnical context

• A production area for over 65 years since 1930 until 1993

• The history of tree – tapping , starts from ancient Greece

• The 1st reference concerning resin collection, that we have in our hands, has been found in a 17th century document.

• Over the last years techniques and means of resin collection are ever improving.

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Priorities Identifies Priorities Identifies

• Development of forestry awareness through the contact people will develop with the natural wealth of the forests.

• Protection of the forest areas through its management.

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Action carried out Action carried out

• Preparation of the basic parts of the ‘forest managing plan’, by the Forestry Administration of N.Aegean Region and individual researchers.

• Implementation of a workshop for stakeholders and representatives of relevant with the forest protection matters departments of the Region in order to exchange knowledge and aspects.

• Preparation of the managing plan related to the establishment of a ‘Forestry Cooperative Workmanship’

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Means (human, material, financial) Means (human, material, financial)

• Materials and tools, such as resin dispensers, bark-cutting tools, lugging buckets, hackers, lugging buckets uploadable on carrying livestock, turpentine stills, flat scoops.

• Professional workers and volunteers from the nearby area of the forests.

• The financing of the whole project of ‘tree tapping’ could be sponsored by the money the ‘Forestry Cooperative Workmanship’ will gain while selling the resin.

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ResultsResults

• Wider social network

• Reduce of other protection policy

• Overcome problems (a lack of materials and economic resources )

• Cultivation and management of ecosystem

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EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND Tree - tapping of Pinus As a Good Practice A traditional way of protecting the forest