“But it is part of a solution that can help landscapes be more resilient to fire. “It’s not a miracle solution,” she added. Research has suggested targeted grazing can be effective when paired with other wildfire prevention methods such as mechanical clearing and controlled burning, said Julia Rouet-Leduc, a researcher at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research at the University of Leipzig.
The grazing has brought about other benefits: the animals carry seeds and fertilise as they move through the terrain and their relatively indiscriminate feeding habits nurture biodiversity by curtailing the competitive advantage of some plants. The regional programme has since swelled to include more than 100,000 animals, saving officials an estimated 75% of the cost of having the land mechanically cleared. Parts of Spain adopted the strategy nearly two decades ago, when the southern region of Andalusia began paying shepherds to traverse its overgrown plains and valleys with their animals. In the Canadian province of British Columbia, cattle have been used to clear areas at risk of wildfires. In northern Portugal, 45 endangered Garrano horses and their appetites were credited with helping to spare the Faia Brava reserve from the devastating impact of the 2017 wildfire. In California, where more than 850,000 hectares were consumed by wildfire last year, a dozen companies contract out goats for targeted grazing. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process. The city’s foray into the strategy echoes similar efforts around the world. Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. “It’s a very urban park, surrounded by densely packed municipalities.” “It is not lost on anybody that if one day there was to be a major fire, it would have a big impact,” he said. In Barcelona, the pilot project was launched in April in Collserola park, an 8,000 hectare (20,000 acres) green space perched over the city and which sees an average of 50 fires a year, said Eloi Badia, the Barcelona city councillor for climate emergency and ecological transition. “What we’re doing is recovering something that already existed and that was disappearing.”
“We’re not inventing anything new here,” said Guillem Canaleta of the Pau Costa Foundation, a Catalan non-profit that has been implementing the strategy since 2016 in the province of Girona, near Barcelona. It’s a nod to how wildfires were warded off in the past.
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Controlled grazing begins on the Barcelona side of the Collserola natural park. First of all, all solutions use a specific naming code (Campaign-mission.slot) and two entries (Solution and InputRate), if you need to update this page, you need to find your save.dat file and find the entries you want to submit, then fork the repository, make your change and do a pull request.
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