UEX-INDEHESA - FIREPOCTEP

In the current context of new strategies in the fight against forest fires, the University of Extremadura (UEX) has been developing, within the framework of the Mosaic Project, numerous direct actions on the landscape in the Extremadura counties of Sierra de Gata and Las Hurdes through the so-called productive firewalls (CP).
These are defined as the basic preventive infrastructure whose economic exploitation (agricultural, livestock, forestry or mixed) supposes a significant reduction of the vegetable fuel that makes it difficult for the fire to spread.

Thanks to the Interreg FIRECPOTEP Project, UEX-INDEHESA is developing a platform for the design of productive firebreaks that allows the transfer of this tool and this economic opportunity to the business sector that allows the replication of this new form of comprehensive fight against large forest fires.

Research, prevention, extinction.