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The Minister of Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning, Benito Mercader, announced this morning at the conference that the Association held in Murcia regional and state organizations of forest owners in the northern Mediterranean (ARCMED) which is being finalized an agreement with owners mountains of the region to promote conservation and increasing forest cover in the region.

In this sense, Mercader said that "it is the regional government will continue to work with forest owners to maintain and improve them, because they are an environmental asset that positively influence the sustainable development, climate change mitigation and to prevent the spread of desertification in the region of Murcia.

For that reason, we are finalizing a partnership agreement with the Forest Owners Association of the Region of Murcia. "

Also, the counselor noted that "among other actions, during 2007 we invested over 2 million in various forestry jobs, as construction of roads, fire, silvicultural or forest land for water works.

During the year 2008 is expected to invest in similar actions over 1,300,000 euros and 5 million in preparation of forest affected by fire in the Northwest. "

The counselor also take the ARCMED meeting to inform forest owners Forest Strategy in the Region of Murcia 2008-2013 that has just been approved by the regional government, which will exceed the 300,000 hectares of forest, with an investment of 150 million euros.

Merchant concluded by saying that "collaboration with forest owners is especially important in the Forestry Strategy for only one third of forest land in the region are publicly owned.

For that reason, from the Ministry of Sustainable Development are making a major effort to include the owners in the management plans. "

ARCMED At the meeting will discuss issues affecting the coordination in relation to actions carried out in these forests by the government and various means of grants to national and European level aimed at various operations on them.

Source: CARM