New cork trees replanting at Tenuta di Bagnolo

Work continues at Tenuta di Bagnolo, one of the properties we directly manage in Tuscany to develop and improve cork growing areas.

The area, which has already been the subject of an intervention for the replacement of a maritime pine forest irreparably damaged by Matsucoccus feytaudi, has been under constant maintenance and monitoring for the last two years. In fact, during this period, two interventions have been carried out on a total area of more than 60 hectares, replanting 8719 cork oak seedlings in phytocells.

These replantings are part of a larger project – financed by the European Community with disbursements from the Tuscany Region (P.S.R. Regional Development Plan) – of forestry interventions aimed primarily at preventing the risk of fire, in addition to increasing the forest cover of our cork factory with an important new source of strictly controlled raw material. Cork is indeed a slow-burning material, burning by progressive carbonization rather than flame, and therefore difficult to ignite.

The benefits do not end there: cork oak forests are a valuable environmental and natural resource, an important barrier against desertification, and a source that releases four times more oxygen into the atmosphere than the amount of CO2 it absorbs.

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