UPM Forestal Oriental - Social and Enviromental Report 2014

The protected area of the Mafalda plot, called the Esteros de Argarrobales del Río Uruguay [Carob Estuaries of the Uruguay River], is currently in the process of being admitted to the National System of Protected Areas (SNAP). It will be the first protected area of the SNAP to be fully managed by a single private owner, meeting all of the system’s requirements.

AREAS OF HIGH CONSERVATION VALUE

Name

Specific Measures for their management

Forests or Areas of High Conservation Value (BAVC) are defined according to the guidelines and requirements of the Forest Stewardship Council™. In order to define these areas and their management, consultations are carried out with experts and other local stakeholders. Those conservation areas of UPM Forestal Oriental that comply with these criteria are mapped as BAVC and monitored in accordance with the esta- blished management guidelines

Monitoring of flora and fauna. Recovery of degraded environments. Implement a public use of the area (interpretation trail). Carry out educational and recreational activities. Control of invasive alien woody species. Establish rational grazing in different environments. Control of poaching. Monitoring of flora and fauna. Control of invasive alien woody species. Publication and internal communication of the results of monitoring. Control of the entry of poachers. Grazing management.

Mafalda

El Jabalí

La Rinconada

Control of exotic species.

Control of exotic species. Monitoring of flora in pastures and native forests.

Queguay

CJPPU-Arteaga Arteaga Infrastructure maintenance.

Conservation of the straight-billed reedhaunter ( Limnoctites rectirostris ), a threatened species of bird, and of its specific habitat, the wet environments of Eryngium pandanifolium

Quiebrayugos

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