The forests house the 70 percent of the biodiversidad of the planet

The general director of Half Natural and Forestry Politics of the MARM, José Jiménez, has pronounced recently a conference on Forestrys and Conservation, the last of the organised by the MARM, in collaboration with the Upper Technical School of Engineers of Mountains of Madrid and the School of Engineers of Mountains, in the frame of the celebration of the International Year of the Forestrys, where has posed the importance to orient the management of the forestrys no like a dichotomy between conservation and production, but like a rational management, considering besides the costs of his externalities.

José Jiménez has remembered that the forestrys house the 70 percent of the biodiversidad of the planet, and only in the tropical forestrys finds around the 50 percent of all the vertebrates known and the 60 percent of the species of flora, incidiendo in the need to preserve the forestry surface that, in the last 100 years, has happened to have 6.800 million hectares, the 30 percent of the surface of the planet, to a current surface of 3.900 million hectares.

Thus it has underlined that the exigencia of catering of the ecosystems will base in scientific criteria, indicating that in the specific case of the forestrys, will have to make possible the rehabilitation of able ecosystems to evolve, adapt and change. “These will have to be complete, connected and can provide the stray environingingmental services, in definite, it will be necessary to achieve functional ecosystems, and this only will be able to do with a management of the forestry fully incardinada in the conservation and careful use of our biodiversidad”.

Conference on Forests and Conservation.