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AREAS OF
HIGH CONSERVATION VALUE
Forests or Areas of High Conservation
Value (BAVC) are defined according
to the guidelines and requirements of
the Forest Stewardship Council™.
In order to define these areas and
their management, consultations are
carried out with experts and other local
stakeholders.
Those conservation areas of UPM
Forestal Oriental that comply with
these criteria are mapped as BAVC and
monitored in accordance with the esta-
blished management guidelines
The protected area of the Mafalda plot,
called the Esteros de Argarrobales del
Río Uruguay [Carob Estuaries of the
Uruguay River], is currently in the process
of being admitted to the National System
of Protected Areas (SNAP). It will be the
first protected area of the SNAP to be
fully managed by a single private owner,
meeting all of the system’s requirements.
Name
Specific Measures for their management
Mafalda
Monitoring of flora and fauna.
Recovery of degraded environments.
Implement a public use of the area (interpretation trail).
Carry out educational and recreational activities.
Control of invasive alien woody species.
Establish rational grazing in different environments.
Control of poaching.
El Jabalí
Monitoring of flora and fauna.
Control of invasive alien woody species.
Publication and internal communication of the results of
monitoring.
Control of the entry of poachers.
Grazing management.
La Rinconada
Control of exotic species.
Queguay
Control of exotic species.
Monitoring of flora in pastures and native forests.
CJPPU-Arteaga
Arteaga Infrastructure maintenance.
Quiebrayugos
Conservation of the straight-billed reedhaunter (
Limnoctites
rectirostris
), a threatened species of bird, and of its specific
habitat, the wet environments of
Eryngium pandanifolium