UPM Forestal Oriental Annual Report 2021

IN 2021 WE HAD MORE THAN 30 AREAS DESTINED FOR THE CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY and of historical-cultural or paleontological heritage for the country thanks to the incorporation of two new high value conservation areas. Today we have 29 biodiversity areas, as well as one of high value for palaeontology and another destined for historical-cultural conservation. The two new areas added in 2021 are “Palmares de las Cañas” and “El Retorno 2”. Palmares de las Cañas, is

located in La Paloma, Durazno and is comprised of 57 hectares in which mainly swampy forests and grasslands are preserved, particularly the only known population of a specific species of fern in Uruguay. El Retorno 2, is located in Tacuarembó and is comprised of 174 hectares intended for the conservation of native vegetation found on flat sandstone hills, in particular plants found on ravines and grasslands. Populations of numerous priority species for conservation and endemic prickly tunas are preserved there.