Nature itself sometimes offers us the simplest solutions to reduce the environmental impact of our actions and to achieve sustainable development goals.
One of our in initiatives is therefore based on traditional and sustainable solutions such as controlled grazing of indigenous livestock to control vegetation under our power lines, allowing cattle to graze on these lands.
Biological clearing, which involves the use of livestock to control vegetation, is a more economical and sustainable alternative to mechanical procedures. The advantages of this type of natural solution include increased biodiversity in grazing areas, tree mass development, soil enrichment, carbon sequestration, and forest fire prevention.
On the other hand, use of the area under power lines makes it possible to increase the area used for livestock farming and the amount of fodder available for livestock, in line with local development and also contributing to the objective of maintaining the population in rural areas.
An example of this type of initiative is the ‘Pastando en red’ project, which we are developing in areas of the municipalities of Friol (Lugo) and Maceda (Ourense), in collaboration with the Agroforestry and Agroecological System research group of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Red Eléctrica (Redeia) and the Galician Pasture and Forage Society.
We are also launching similar actions in other areas, such as Vilariño de Conso (Ourense), where GPS devices are being fitted to animals to facilitate grazing tasks for farmers, and in Nogueira de Ramuin (Ourense), where herds of up to 100 animals are being used to analyse the control of tree regrowth.
