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Here are the latest developments of the LIFE CO2RK Project.
7 April 2025
LIFE CO2RK at the launch of the EU Platform on Soils
LIFE CO2RK was one of the LIFE projects invited by CINEA, the European Climate, Environment and Infrastructure Executive Agency, to the launch of the European Platform on Soils...
6 April 2025
LIFE CO2RK in Beech Forests: Regione Marche (Italy)
In the Marche region, as in most of the Italian Adriatic coast, there are no cork oak forests or plantations (Quercus suber), therefore the focus of the LIFE CO2RK project in Italy was placed on the common beech (Fagus sylvatica L.).
6 April 2025
LIFE CO2RK in the COP29
The President of the Andalusian Regional Government, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, presented the LIFE CO2RK project at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to 22, 2024. CO2RK was one of two examples of the emissions offset policy that Andalusia aims to develop…
4 November 2024
Presentations to Diffuse Sector companies
LIFE CO2RK is holding formal meetings with companies operating in Andalusia to explain the project's objectives, how they can support it, and the advantages that joining CO2 Emissions Offsetting Projects would have for them and for society as a whole.
3 November 2024
CO2RK welcomes CINEA
The Director of CINEA, the European Climate, Environment and Infrastructure Executive Agency visits LIFE CO2RK This visit by the head of the EU's environmental research arm is a clear endorsement of the project and its potential for Climate Change Mitigation through public-private collaboration.
16 May 2024
Control actions for deer, fallow deer, mouflons and wild pigs
In 2023, the CSMAEA is investing €0.7M in the repair and expansion of hunting fences in public forests such as “Buenas Noches” or “San José del Tiradero” where the excess of wild herbivores is preventing young cork oaks from growing (natural regeneration of the forest), as they are delicacies for…
30 April 2024
Meeting with Forestry Consultants
On April 4th, a working meeting was held with the main consultants who provide technical assistance in the forestry management of the private farms in the Los Alcornocales Natural Park. The LIFE CO2RK Project was explained in detail and a work dynamic was established to obtain the contributions of these…
30 April 2024
Field works for typing of Cork oak forests
Since December 2023 to June 2024, a team composed of researchers and technicians from the University of Córdoba, Idaf, Yuntas and the Los Alcornocales Natural Park performed field works to establish the forest and environmental characteristics of the different Cork Oak Forests and classify them into homogeneous typologies
11 February 2024
The challenge of Natural Regeneration
Studies and practical experiences developed by Los Alcornocales Natural Park technicians since 2010 have established that the most efficient technique for promoting the natural regeneration of the cork oak forest is the planting of acorns. Lack of regeneration is the greatest threat to forests and "dehesas"…