Translation of "Surfaces pastorales " (French → English) :

Soils under native grasslands may contain up to 200 tons of carbon per hectare.

In the EU there is a great deal of agricultural land, including pasture, that is suitable only for livestock grazing and fodder grass production, so that in certain regions stock farming must continue to be encouraged so that farmers do not give up this land.

The geographical area of the designation of origin ‘Beaufort’, which covers the Beaufortain massif, the valleys of Tarentaise, Maurienne and a part of Val d'Arly, is characterised by extensive mountain pastures (92 % of the pastoral units of Savoie).

Pastoral practices have developed on these mountain pastures which are not followed on the same scale elsewhere in the Alps either individually or as a whole and which constitute a single system.

6. Calls for the policy of reafforestation of damaged areas to be conducted showing due respect for local plant species and the diversity of ecosystems, and emphasises once again that special attention should be given to the restoration of rural landscapes; stresses that efforts aimed at introducing ecological management of resources should ensure that the potential of any given area, including its agro-sylvo-pastoral potential, is matched with appropriate actitivies, which can revitalise the area by providing alternative forms of sustainable development; points out that the existence of such activities in forestry areas can help with ...[+++]surveillance and act as a deterrent against the starting of fires, whether deliberate or accidental;

6. Calls for the policy of reafforestation of damaged areas to be conducted showing due respect for local plant species and the diversity of ecosystems, and emphasises once again that special attention should be given to the restoration of rural landscapes; stresses that efforts aimed at introducing ecological management of resources should ensure that the potential of any given area, including its agro-sylvo-pastoral potential, is matched with appropriate actitivies, which can revitalise the area by providing alternative forms of sustainable development; points out that the existence of such activities in forestry areas can help with ...[+++]surveillance and act as a deterrent against the starting of fires, whether deliberate or accidental;