Objective No. 1 Education and consulting of private forest owners
Sub goal: Sustainable development of private forests and forest resources
Activities:
- Workshops and lectures for forest owners about sustainable forest management, in cooperation with authorized institutions
- Establishment of private forest owners associations in the area of the Model Forest
- Helping the forest owners in regulating property right relations of rural forests (community forests) on the Cicarija mountain range
- Cooperation of the Model forest with the Advisory Service for Forests
Objective No. 2 Promoting the usage of renewable energy resources
Activities:
- Education and informing the forest owners about the possibilities of exploiting the biomass
- Giving the institutional support to forest owners for participating in projects that encourage the use of biomass and other renewable energy resources
- Educative campaigns for the public about the usage of biomass, solar and wind energy
- Construction of plants for processing the biomass in the area of the Model Forests
- Start using locally produced pellets from biomass in public institutions of towns and municipalities in the area of the Model Forest
Objective No. 3 Afforestation and sustainable management of forests
Activities:
- Encourage the high breeding forms, so-called spermatophyte, and breeding forms of natural forest structure and indigenous species
- Influence the introduction of control in illegal wood cutting and other illegal activities on the forest land
- Raising the clone seeds of indigenous species
- Encourage the plantation of fast growing species; plantation cultivation of chestnut
- Influence the reconciliation of cadastre and actual situation on the ground
- Encourage the construction and maintenance of forest fire-prevention roads
Objective No. 4 Development of infrastructure for wood processing
- Encourage the entrepreneurial climate for producing the final wood products
- Encourage the processing of woods and by-products and their promotion and branding
Goal Nr. 5 Cooperation on the development of the Hunting strategy in the Region of Istria
Measurable results: plants for processing of biomass, lectures, buildings that use renewable energy sources, forest owners associations, infrastructure for wood processing, new wood products, plantations, seed orchards.
Activity holders: Croatian Forests, Region of Istria, Croatian Forest Research Institute, towns and municipalities, community forests.
Included and target groups: residents in the area of model forest, forest owners, Advisory Service for Forests.
