Main objective: The ForestWaterUp project proposes to carry out ecological restoration interventions on the slopes that border the Lagos do Sabor, inserted in the Site of Community Importance of the Natura 2000 Network “Rios Sabor e Maçãs”, focusing on the recovery of soils degraded by the great fire of Picões, which affected almost 15 thousand hectares in 2013.
The activities to be developed consist in applying a series of Nature-based Solutions (SbNs), with good cost-efficiency and low application impact, in order to reduce soil erosion losses and increase C fixation in the soil. These soil protection actions will serve as potentiators of the success of the afforestation of the margins that minimize the direct entry of sediments into the reservoir and thus contribute to the protection and improvement of the ecological quality of the water body. With an innovative character, it is proposed to start from the Baixo Sabor’s own reservoir, in particular islands, to enhance the natural succession on the slopes.

Promoters: City Hall of Mogadouro

co-promoters:
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (IPB)
MORE – Laboratório Colaborativo Montanhas de Investigação – Association

Date of approval: 2022-09-01
Start date: 2022-09-01
Completion date: 2023-12-31

Total eligible investment: 802,414.46 Euros
Financial support from the European Union: COMPETE 2020 Operational Programme, CLIMATE TRANSITION SUPPORT, Programme 13/REACT-EU/2021- “Resilience Interventions of Territories in the face of risk – Combating desertification through reafforestation and actions that promote increased fixation of carbon and nutrients in the soil.