Eucalyptus: a problem or an opportunity?

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Manuel Fco. Marey Pérez
Unicersidade de Santiago de Compostela
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8947-8355
No 15 (2019), Original articles, pages 35-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/rr.id6623
Submitted: 17-02-2020 Accepted: 17-02-2020 Published: 17-02-2020
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Divided societies do not move forward. Eucalyptus has been the argument to divide the population among supporters and detractors. In the words of an old forest manager "those who speak badly about eucalyptus ara those who do not have them". In the words of an environmental activist "we must burn eucalyptus trees and tear them all until there is none." The purpose of this work is to overcome this confrontation. It provides data on the two issues that the author defended in the debate. First, eucalyptus is neither, nor has been, nor will be responsible for the fires in Galicia, using it as such does nothing, but misleading the diagnosis, and therefore the solution, to the most serious environmental problem in Galicia. The second question shows the importance of eucalyptus in our economy and the reasons for its expansion, in some cases chaotic and excessive. This work aims to present arguments to move forward jointly in the proposal of realistic territorial and forest planning in which the role to be played by the species of the genus Eucalyptus in the future throughout Galicia is established.

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Eucalyptus, fires, economics, forest management and planning
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