The collaboration protocol between E-REDES and VERDE resulted in a pilot on the implementation of Best Practices for the Preservation, Enhancement and Potentiation of Ecosystem Services under the E-REDES Fuel Management Tracks.
This partnership emphasizes the focus on the sustainability of E-REDES and the fight to preserve biodiversity.
1,692 native trees and shrubs were planted, resulting in 36,598Kg of estimated 10-year carbon storage.
These results were only possible thanks to the participation of 637 volunteers, culminating in 1908 hours of volunteer work and 303 hours of technical work in the field.
The Good Practices implemented were the main milestone in this protocol, where the objective was to intervene in several areas in the preservation of nature.
Green Giants
Green Giants are trees with a trunk circumference of more than 150 centimeters, measured about 130 centimeters from the ground.
They have numerous benefits, including carbon sequestration and consequent oxygen production, removal of pollutants from the air while cooling the soil with their shade, flood prevention, and are home to hundreds of living things such as birds, insects, plants, and fungi.
Deadwood Structures
Deadwood structures are an important resource for biodiversity, which uses it for feeding, reproduction and nesting.
It is a dynamic resource that has important functions in the carbon, hydrological nutrient cycles for example by contributing beneficially to moisture retention in soils (like a sponge) and acting as a barrier to fire dispersal.
Ponds
Ponds are small bodies of still or very low flowing water, either permanent or temporary in character.
They are essential to wildlife. The retention of water in the site in drier seasons serves as a place of shelter and reproduction for various organisms such as amphibians and insects.
Invasive Plants
The control of invasive plants allows native species to establish themselves properly, positively affecting the development of food chains.
These species reproduce autonomously far from the places where they were initially introduced, without direct human intervention, promoting environmental changes and/or socio-economic damage mostly negative.