The Eucaliptal do Algar do Carvรฃo is one of the intervention areas of the LIFE BEETLES project on the island of Terceira, where the Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change intends to increase and improve the habitat conditions of the project’s target species, the Ground Beetle (๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ๐ถ๐ด ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐ข๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ด).
This area has shown positive indicators of regeneration of native flora following the project’s interventions in cutting down and taking to pieces eucalyptus trees. By removing these exotic trees, the native vegetation had the necessary soil, light and space conditions to begin propagating.
It is already possible to observe the sprouting of new seedlings of endemic species in the space where the eucalyptus trees were removed. There is also considerable development of young trees of species such as Buckthorn (๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข ๐ข๐ป๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข), Holly (๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐น ๐ข๐ป๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข) and Azorean Laurel (๐๐ข๐ถ๐ณ๐ถ๐ด ๐ข๐ป๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข).
The Regional Secretariat and the Project team welcome the evident success of the conservation actions of the LIFE BEETLES, of which the natural regeneration of this ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฃ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ต is an example.
