The LIFE BEETLES project, coordinated by the Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change, has as one of its main objectives the conversion of Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus) production forests into more naturalized areas, converting them into favourable habitat for native species.
In one of the project’s intervention zones, Eucalyptus has been cut and removed in a controlled manner. Thus, it is possible to preserve the native understory which is in a very advanced state of development. Here, we see an example of the removal of an Eucalyptus, by targeted felling, in order to prevent the felled tree from causing damage to the native flora below it.
This type of action makes it possible to recover and conserve ideal habitat conditions for one of our project’s target species, the Ground Beetle (Trechus terrabravensis), among other native arthropods.
