The Communities of Montes: Tenorio, Borela, A Chamadoira, Cobas, Quireza, Rebordelo, Tomonde, Loureiro, Vilar, and Casal will be reforested by CO2 Revolution, a pioneering company in the use of new technologies applied to forestry engineering.
This project, in which the Municipality of Cercedo-Cotobade has participated as a mediator, represents a milestone for the region, as the most suitable and efficient planting system will be chosen to recover devastated areas and plots without trees.
The local initiative thus finds a novel and profitable formula for the forest, social, and economic recovery of the area, which will serve as a springboard in the strategy of a “true ecological transition” towards a sustainable development model in rural areas.
The Communities: Tenorio, Borela, A Chamadoira, Cobas, Quireza, Rebordelo, Tomonde, Loureiro, Vilar, and Casal, along with CO2 Revolution, a company specialized in applying artificial intelligence to forestry engineering, have signed a collaboration agreement for the reforestation of 462.69 hectares for the coming autumn. The species to be reforested will include Pinus pinaster, Pinus radiata, Castanea hibrida, Prunus aviam, Quercus robur, and species of Betula alba, among others.
This project, in which the Municipality of Cercedo-Cotobade has participated as a mediator, represents the forest recovery of one of the areas most affected by forest fires in recent years and of plots without trees.
CO2 Revolution, the chosen company to carry out the activity, is a global pioneer in the use of new technologies to reforest large areas more efficiently and in very short times. Specifically, for this action, the most suitable and efficient planting system for the project will be chosen, which allows repopulating with native species an area devastated by fire or affected by desertification up to 100 times faster than traditional means.
For this, CO2 Revolution uses big data, smart seeds, and drones, embedded in a biodegradable capsule that protects them, ensuring maximum efficiency in the planting process. These are pre-germinated seeds that also have super components to enhance their germination and prevent the growth of weeds. Plantations are carried out with drones that have tanks capable of holding up to 2,500 seeds, launching them from the air to cover larger areas of land, which also allows planting in hard-to-reach areas.
Reforestation, which will begin in autumn of this year, will also involve the hiring of local personnel. What will be one of the most important environmental projects in the region also becomes a more ambitious program of local, social, and economic development for the area. According to Juan Carlos Sesma, CEO of CO2 Revolution, investing in trees means investing in the future in every sense. And the Municipality of Cercedo-Cotobade is an institutional example of a true ecological transition towards a sustainable development model. The local initiative thus finds a novel and profitable formula for the forest, social, and economic recovery of the area.
CO2 Revolution has clients such as LG, Banco Santander, Grupo Siro, Leroy Merlin, Sprigfield, Mapfre, etc., companies with a strong environmental conscience and commitment to continue growing in an ambitious project in favor of the recovery of Spanish forests. The impetus of this strategy, now supported by the Municipality of Cercedo-Cotobade, would allow Spain to initiate a true ecological transition towards a sustainable development model in rural areas, contributing to the demographic challenge of combating depopulation and the abandonment of activity in rural areas.
Galicia, and specifically Pontevedra, joins other Spanish areas also reforested by this company, such as Extremadura, Murcia, Palencia, Guadalajara, Burgos, and Palencia.
