A total of 41 employees from EDPR Madrid, Oviedo and Portugal got to work in order to reforest their respective regions. This activity was proposed months ago during the team building session at EDPR’s 2017 Annual Meeting. 

The main objective identified was to follow through with the environmental activity of reforesting the mountains of two Spanish regions (Asturias and Madrid) and one Portuguese region, in response to the fires that devastated thousands of hectares of forest in both countries last summer. 

The Barranca valley in the mountains of Madrid was the location chosen for the continuation of the environmental volunteering activities proposed during the team building session at the 2017 Annual Meeting. 

On the morning of Friday, April 6, a group of EDPR employees gathered in the Madrid mountains: specifically in the Barranca valley in Navacerrada. Two members of the Reforesta Association were waiting there to guide them to the place where they would be carrying out the reforestation of Mediterranean oak specimens. The planting area is located in the public forest of Los Almorchones, adjacent to the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park.

Over 100 oak trees were planted in Madrid, with the aim of restoring the area’s biodiversity. The volunteers agreed that actions like this reinforce the commitment of the company—and the people who are part of it—to nature and the environment.  

In addition to the reforestation activity that took place in Madrid with Reforesta, further volunteering activities were carried out in Oviedo and Portugal: FAPAS planted 600 strawberry trees in the destroyed brown bear habitat in Asturias and MONTIS planted 1000 trees and recovered one hectare of land in Portugal, to be preserved for a period of 10 years.