UPM Forestal Oriental - Social and Enviromental Report 2014

Integrated into a network of communities

UPM Forestal Oriental directly carries out its activities in 5 regions spread across the departments of Río Negro, Paysandú, Soriano (Coast), Tacuarembó (North Zone) and Durazno, Rocha and Cerro Largo (Central-South Zone).

NORTHERN ZONE Tacuarembó 27 communities 74,818 inhabitants

• Marked differentiation in local development, opportunities for social inclusion, public services and prospects for the future between towns close to national routes and with easy access and communication with the major urban centres and those located in rural areas. Rural areas have limited opportunities for local development, very limited basic infrastructures (energy, drinking water, transport, roads) and a lack of targeted policies for these areas, with problems of local emigration and an ageing population. • Forestry activity is positively assessed as a generator of improvements in access to cities within the department, a promoter of a well-paid jobs and a creator of local forestry service company (which leads to improvements in local economies).

COASTAL ZONE Río Negro, Paysandú and Soriano 57 communities 187,240 inhabitants

• Very strong presence of afforestation in the different stages of the production cycle. • Presence of large companies that invigorate and determine the pace of the area, promoting the development of various locations in the area where afforestation is a very important source of employment and requires a significant amount of services. • Development of many locations under the “umbrella of forest development,” using labour, training the workforce and developing the most varied services aimed at the planting, harvesting and relocation of timber. • Development of afforestation is usually identified as the main cause of the decline in migration in some rural locations.

AREMBÓ CUTA

PAYSANDÚ

CERRO LARGO

RÍO NEGRO

DURAZNO

SORIANO

FLORIDA

• Afforestation is present through the nurseries and forest plantations. • As a result of the incorporation of forestry activities as a productive line, there have been some changes at a social and economic level: this is seen through an increase in the sources of employment and their revenue, with a notable increase in rural workers; the birth of a new rural population trained in new and specific tasks, an improvement in working conditions and, in general, in the daily life of the communities

CENTRAL-SOUTH ZONE Durazno, Florida and Cerro Largo 13 communities 48,469 inhabitants

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