Overview
- Mayor Abel Caballero announced that the Concello will provide almost €800,000 for monte conservation, allocating €600,000 to forest park maintenance and €145,000 to let the Mancomunidad de Montes hire workers for desbroce and limpieza.
- The city supplies trees for the Mancomunidad’s annual planting program and says those plantings are part of an ongoing, continuous stewardship effort for Vigo’s montes.
- Concello officials list active prevention and surveillance tools that include drones, rural Policía Local patrols on motorbikes, beach agents on bicycles who monitor coastal forest areas, and Bomberos de Vigo kept ready to intervene.
- The municipality says it has carried out 985 subsidiary desbroce operations on parcels whose owners did not act, split between 547 secondary strips and 438 urban plots, and approved a service with a €20,000 allocation for selective removal and valorisation of vegetation waste.
- Caballero framed the spending as evidence that Vigo is the main public backer of monte care, a stance that could raise municipal costs and increase pressure on the Xunta and Diputación to contribute more to fire prevention and forest upkeep.