- The municipal plenary of the city of Gijón has decided by a majority that the public surface is declared "free of eucalyptus" and that it begins to cut the ones already planted in them. The proposal put forward by the United Left gathered the votes against pp, who reproached leftist voters who are "for ideological prejudices" against eucalyptus.
Eucalyptus, which in recent years has become a monoculture of trees rather than forests, is in conflict throughout the Basque coast from Portugal to Gipuzkoa, due to the considerable environmental damage it entails. On this occasion the municipal plenary of the Asturian city of Gijón (270,000 inhabitants) has been debated and decided to expel the eucalyptus from the municipal land and start cutting the already modified ones.
This is a small step to control a little the force that this invading tree has taken in the municipal area of Gijón. As for the large sections of eucalyptus that have private owners, the councillors have not dared to go much further, as well as deciding that they will implement a plan for better management of eucalyptus. It is going to cost the authorities to reach out to the Eucalyptus of private land, given the strength of cheap paper and wood lobbies throughout the Atlantic and the Cantabrian coast. The municipality of Gijón, according to the EFE agency, consists of 3,000 hectares of forest, of which 2,000 correspond to eucalyptus.
According to the Asturian ecologists, eucalyptus has also been widespread in a few years in Asturias, although its monoculture has not yet reached the seriousness it has in Galicia. It is estimated that the eucalyptus has some 70,000 hectares of Asturian land, the most abundant in the region. The forestry law that Asturias has today already exceeded the number of eucalyptus it expected by 2050... In 2018.