Compromís impulsa 'Ramat de foc' a Gandia
- Compromís used a visit to Gandia on April 28 to champion “Ramat de foc,” a municipal grazing project for wildfire prevention in Parpalló-Borrell. - Spokesperson Dolors Gimeno said freezing fire-prevention funds is “an irresponsibility” and cited Gandia’s project as a working model for public forest management. - Gandia launched the pilot in 2023 after the 2018 Llutxent fire; it later won a FEMP biodiversity award (elperiodic.com)
Compromís went to Gandia on April 28 to hold up “Ramat de foc” as a model for preventing wildfires with managed grazing in municipal forestland. (elperiodic.com) Dolors Gimeno, the party’s spokesperson in the Valencia provincial council, visited the project with Gandia environment councillor Alícia Izquierdo and local officials. (elperiodic.com) (gentedelasafor.es) Gimeno said freezing resources for fire prevention is “an irresponsibility” and accused the Generalitat Valenciana and the Diputación de València of leaving municipalities without enough support. (elperiodic.com) “Ramat de foc” uses herds to eat low vegetation in strategic areas, reducing the brush that helps summer fires spread quickly through Mediterranean hillsides. (ramatsdefoc.org) (www.paucostafoundation.org) In Gandia, the project operates in the Parpalló-Borrell municipal natural area, where goats and sheep are used as a forest-management tool instead of relying only on mechanical clearing. (elperiodic.com) (www.levante-emv.com) The city launched the initiative on an experimental basis in 2023, after the 2018 Llutxent fire pushed local officials to rethink how to manage nearby forest fuel. (elperiodic.com) (gandia.compromis.net) By 2025, Gandia said the project had about 300 goats in the area, and Levante-EMV described the herd as “teledirigido” because the animals carry virtual-fencing devices. (www.mesgandia.net) (www.levante-emv.com) The project has also picked up outside recognition. Gandia said it received a special mention, the second prize, in the fifth FEMP awards for local biodiversity good practices. (elperiodic.com) (infogandia.es) Compromís used that record to press for more provincial and regional backing, arguing Gandia has already built a working example rather than a pilot on paper. (elperiodic.com) The party’s message in Gandia was simple: keep funding prevention before summer, or leave towns to face fire season with fewer tools. (elperiodic.com)
