How does it work?
We cooperate with various and different non-profit associations dedicated to repopulation and reforestateting landscapes of Andalusia’s natural areas.When a traveller books one of our experiences they are contributing with an ecological fee equal to purchasing a one year old plant. This contribution is invested in buying seedings, seeds and working equipment. These associations are responsible for reforesting and pampering our future forests.
Let’s make a greener and more sustainable world!
Trees against the climate Change (ACCC Granada)
ACCC Granada is an association focused towards the reforestation and regeneration of landscapes. It carries out the reforestation of native trees and bushes that capture C02 and serve as a buffer for those released by human beings. Its activity is mainly centered in the capital of Granada and its nearest environment. With an average of twice a week this enthusiastic group of citizens goes to the countryside to water small Holm and Kern Oaks, Strawberry Trees, cornicabras, etc.. But furthermore, Granada’s ACCC also collaborates with school groups encouraging respect towards the environment and maintaining an essential task of awareness.
Cerro del Sol
Pinos Genil
San Miguel Alto
Cerro del Sol
Injecting Life into a burned mountain
The Cerro del Sol or the Dehesa of the Generalife is a mountain that extends itself behind The Alhambra and The Generalife. In Roman times there was an intense mining activity and during the Low Middle Ages this area was partially irrigated. Human activity, and recently a number of fires have devastated what should have been a Mediterranean Forest. Granada ACCC has already carried out various native tree and bush plantings. (Holm Oaks, Mastics, etc…) In this area efforts now are focused on the irrigation and maintenance of the reforestations. Recently they have achieved getting the INFOCA (Andalusian Forest Fire Service) to supply water to the irrigation tanks.
Pinos Genil
Recovering Granada’s green area
Pinos Genil is a small village of the outskirts of Granada.The Genil river goes through this place that is located at the feet of Sierra Nevada.Granada’s ACCC has carried out various reforestations. The last one was conducted in October 2019 with the priceless help of a group of school children. Previously the schools’ boys and girls had germinated the Acorns at the garden center. In some years the slopes of Pinos Puente will once again bloom green thanks to the incessant activity of Granada’s ACCC.
San Miguel Alto
Recovering the views from The Alhambra
San Miguel Alto is known above all for its amazing views of the city and The Alhambra. However very little care is given to the area that spreads out behind the Chapel that is located on top of the hill. It’s a slope devoid of groves that ends up at the Sacromonte, one of the most touristic areas of Granada. Preventing landscape soil erosion in this location isn’t just crucial for the environment, but also for the inhabitants of the Sacromonte and for the tourism in this part of the city. Granada’s ACCC is betting for the diversity of native species in this unique location.
Almijara Association. Málaga
Almijara is a non-profit organization that provides its service to companies and institutions. Its activity is focused on raising environmental sensitivity and awareness. It carries out reforestation projects in urban, rural and natural surroundings. Since its beginning in 1987 it has been awarded prizes and enjoys a recognized prestige for its undeniable work. It cooperates with Malaga’s Town Hall and the Environment and Ordinance Office of Andalucía’s Regional Government.
Territory Safe Keeping
Guadalhorce´s Scenic Screen
Territory Safe Keeping
Involving Society
Territorial Safe Keeping contributes to entities, institutions and the population taking part in the preservation of the environment. With the “Third Sector and Territory Safekeeping” project, agreements have been signed with several of Malaga’s townships as with El Borge, El Burgo, Monda. Aside from working on public urban perimeter estates. In them Bio and Geo Diverse improvements will be undertaken. As reforestations, havens for butterflies and bees, and flora and wildlife shelters.
Guadalhorce´s Scenic Screen
Giving nature back its leading Role
The Natural Reserve at the estuary of the Guadalhorce River is a strongly damaged area due to the nearness of human beings. It’s surrounded by and delimited by industrial estates and highways. The making of a scenic screen at the mouth of the river is an ambitious project that pursues planting more than 6.000 trees, and 16.000 native shrubs/bushes. The screen not only favors the landscape, but also lets the fauna develop with more independence from human modified environment.
Torreblanca Verde
Torreblanca Verde is not just another environmental association. In addition to carrying out small, controlled reforestations, one of their main lines of work is the transformation of the Torreblanca de los Caños neighbourhood in Seville. Through the participation of the citizens, especially the youngest, they are achieving a more humane and habitable neighbourhood. We chose to collaborate with Torreblanca Verde because of the great intensity and variability of their environmental and social actions.
Reforestation
Butterfly Refuge
Plant nursery
Reforestation
Reforesting urban spaces
Greener urban spaces are more habitable. That is why Torreblanca Verde and its legion of volunteers are carrying out a reforestation project next to the old Canal de los Presos on the outskirts of Seville. Their trees are watered every week and in the future they will form a green screen next to the industrial estate. They will also create a lot of shade, which is essential for strolling around Seville in summer. Initially, the watering work was done manually, but now the work has been speeded up thanks to a motor pump with which the water is extracted from the canal.
Butterfly Refuge
In contact with the animal world
The butterfly refuge is a unique initiative carried out by Torreblanca Verde with the special participation of the youngest children. It involves planting the bushes favoured by these insects to facilitate their proliferation. The space has been decorated with a series of colourful murals that give new life to a space that had been abandoned. The butterfly sanctuary involves creative activity and also involves litter picking days. Undoubtedly the best seed planted is the knowledge of the youngest for the future.
Plant nursery
Space for diversity
The nursery project is a knowledge tool, but at the same time it is a space where to germinate and grow seedlings that will later take root somewhere in Torreblanca. The association is in charge of preparing the space and watering and maintaining the plants.
However, the activities of Torreblanca Verde go much further: popular races, botanical walks, nest box groups, book fairs, ecological festivals, etc.
ENEA. Equipo Naturalista y Educación Ambiental
ENEA is a young association created to transmit respect for the environment, using environmental education. It was founded in 2015 by people committed to the environment in Lucena (Córdoba), a small town at the foot of the Sierras Subbéticas natural park. From the interior of Andalusia, they carry out an intense activity that covers very different activities: controlled reforestation, work for the conservation of fauna and waste collection. One of the peculiarities of ENEA is its work to enhance the value of heritage elements related to water supply in rural environments.
Reforestation
The Lesser Kestrel
Fountains and springs
Reforestation
Reforestation and waste collection in the wetlands of southern Cordoba
Two or three times a year they organise reforestations to restore the surrounding vegetation, which over time has been cleared for agriculture. The aim is to reduce erosion and increase biodiversity. They also remove the waste they find along the way and take the opportunity to inform and raise awareness of the values of these natural spaces, walking trails and observing the birds found there. Their main areas of work are the nature reserves of the Zóñar, Amarga and Rincón lagoons and the Cordobilla and Malpasillo nature reserves.
The Lesser Kestrel
Lesser kestrel conservation project in Lucena
Since 2015 they have been developing this project to try to recover the local population of the species. They are carrying out a census and monitoring of the breeding sites. They have installed a hacking system, through which they have released around 60 specimens. They are trying to recover their breeding habitat and are developing an environmental education programme aimed at the school community and the general population.
Fountains and springs
Research on the sources and springs in the municipality of Lucena
Through this work they are inventorying and documenting the state of conservation of these resources and elements of our heritage. Periodic analyses are carried out to determine their quality for consumption and we measure different parameters to study their evolution over time. We also organise outings to raise awareness of these elements. Water gives life to people and remains as an element of nature, so what better way to protect nature than to take care of water.
GRAZALEMA REGENERATIVA FOUNDATION
Grazalema Regenerativa is a private, non-profit initiative that seeks to build a healthy community that guarantees a balance between economic growth, care for the environment and the well-being of all. Its projects seek to maximize the use of renewable energy, improve the quality and diversity of work, promote the welfare of all and regenerate the environment of Grazalema. Their activity is focused on cultural and environmental aspects with educational projects and unique reforestations in the mountains of Cadiz. As they define themselves: Grazalema Regenerativa is an invitation to re-imagine, to re-invent the society in which we live.
Reforestation
Recovering flora
Reforestation
Miniforest Project
Mini-forests are a unique and novel type of reforestation in Andalusia. The idea is to create a dense and fast-growing native forest, based on a forest management method developed in 1970 by the Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki. So far, two campaigns have been carried out in different parts of the Sierra de Cadiz, resulting in nine urban mini-forests and more than 900 native trees and shrubs planted. The work has been carried out by some 160 young people from the province of Cadiz who have spent their time volunteering their time.
Recovering flora
Echinospartum algibicum
The echinospartum algibicum is a shrub endemic to the natural park of Sierra de Grazalema and is currently in critical danger of extinction. It grows in clearings of cork oak groves, among scree and rock fissures. In collaboration with public institutions and with the supervision of the El Castillejo Botanical Garden (El Bosque), they have drawn up a strategy for the conservation of this leguminous plant. Among the actions in progress are the search for new areas to establish population nuclei, the delimitation of zones to favor its conservation, dissemination and awareness, study and cataloguing, etc.
SERBAL. Sociedad para el Estudio y Recuperación de la Biodiversidad Almeriense
Serbal is not only the name of a beautiful and scarce native tree of Andalusia. In Almeria SERBAL is the Society for the Study and Recovery of Almeria’s Biodiversity. Its purpose is to promote the protection and recovery of Almeria’s biodiversity, as well as to encourage the study of environmental issues. After its 10 years of existence, it can be considered the most active environmental association in the province. The intense promotion of volunteering, the realization of important projects, the collaboration with other associations and institutions and the constant dissemination, have allowed them to become a benchmark for environmental protection and recovery in Andalusia and to receive several awards throughout its existence. Reforestations are only a small part of their activity.
Reforestation in Gador
Reforestation in Filabres
Wildlife monitoring
Reforestation in Gador
Your Footprint Plant Project
Another of the reforestations that began in 2022 and is still active is the one linked to the Planta tu Huella project. Its purpose is to renaturalize the pine forest located in the Sierra de Gádor, specifically in the municipalities of Terque and Alhama de Granada. In this project, in addition to the local and regional institutions, the Club Deportivo la Desértica and the Spanish Legion collaborate. It raises awareness of the need to combine sporting events and conservation and promotes the social values of the Spanish army. So far, 750 trees and shrubs have been planted.
Reforestation in Filabres
Filabres Forest Border
Since 2021, SERBAL through its volunteers and with the collaboration of the University of Almeria, the Junta de Andalucia and private companies is carrying out specific reforestation actions. An area of 4 ha. has been successfully renaturalized with a great variety of native species, all of them obtained from seeds of specimens from other areas of the same Filabres mountain range. The inventory, seed collection, nursery and reforestation works are still active.
Wildlife monitoring
Following the chameleon, loggerhead turtle or wild cat
The monitoring of some endangered species in Almeria is one of the pillars of this association. This is carried out through several projects. Activities are developed for the realization of a census of animals. These tasks are carried out with volunteer work coordinated with institutions. In addition to the chameleon, the loggerhead turtle or the wild cat, the owl, the black-headed turtle and several species of birds are also the target of their work.
AMECO. Asociación Medioambiental para la Conservación de Plantas y Animales
AMECO is an acronym for Asociación Medioambiental para la Conservación de Plantas y Animales (Environmental Association for the Conservation of Plants and Animals). Its origin is found in a group of young people committed to the protection of the environment and concerned about the serious environmental situation of the time. Since its constitution in 2012, the association has promoted various initiatives focused on the conservation of species, the fight against climate change, the promotion of recycling and the protection of natural areas, in order to generate a positive and lasting impact on both nature and society. Its activity is focused on amphibian and bird censuses, the installation of nest boxes, studies on the habitat of the Iberian lynx, cleaning raids in natural environments and occasional reforestation in Jaen. AMECO has established itself as a reference in the defense and conservation of the environment in the province of Jaen.
Census and Sampling
Custody of the territory
Follow-ups
Census and Sampling
Tracking sensitive wildlife
The AMECO Environmental Association, committed to the care and conservation of the environment, biodiversity and the balance of urban ecosystems, carries out various censuses to evaluate the state of the populations of different species in the surroundings of the town of Andújar, its countryside and the Sierra de Andújar Natural Park. Among the censuses carried out are those of bats, urban and periurban birds, amphibians and reptiles, as well as the installation of photo-trapping cameras to monitor the fauna.
Custody of the territory
Promoting the conservation of a unique environment
AMECO Environmental Association is located in the town of Andújar, a privileged place due to its proximity to the Sierra de Andújar Natural Park, refuge of the emblematic Iberian lynx. This natural area is recognized for its extraordinary ecological value and is considered one of the main biodiversity hotspots in Europe. With this project, AMECO aims to promote the conservation of this unique environment by monitoring and planning actions aimed at preserving the habitat of the Iberian lynx.
Follow-ups
Green Patrol Project. Sowing the future
This initiative consists of the creation of groups of local young people committed to caring for the environment, who carry out various activities to protect and conserve the natural environment and biodiversity, both in urban areas and natural spaces. The activities carried out by the Patrulleros/as Verdes include the placement of nesting boxes, the organization of clean-up campaigns in natural environments, reforestations, environmental awareness and education activities, and the making of seed bombs, among others.
