The Guadarrama Town Council has chosen the plot known as “La Vega”, located between the Residential Development of “La Serrana”, the Fray Luis de León Complex and C/ San Macario, for the planting of the 12th ‘SIGAUS Forest’. This new green space, covering an area of 3.72 hectares, is home to 1,000 new trees of various species already present in the area, and adds to this natural environment 300 stone pines (Pinus pinea), 100 elms (Ulmus resista), 100 field maples (Acer campestre), 100 holm oaks (Quercus ilex), 100 pyrenean oaks (Quercus pyrenaica), 100 rowan trees (Sorbus aucuparia), 100 cork oaks (Quercus suber) and 100 specimens of common walnut (Juglans regia).

An official visit was organised to inaugurate the 12th ‘SIGAUS Forest’, which was attended by Diosdado Soto, Mayor of Guadarrama, and by Buenaventura González del Campo and Eduardo de Lecea, President and General Manager of SIGAUS, respectively. The President of SIGAUS emphasised that this is one of the organisation’s most prized projects: “We care about introducing native and environmentally efficient species, in order to ensure a legacy that will last over time for future generations”.

This new wooded area, which is a valuable environmental investment and contributes to improving the municipality’s quality of life, is marked with two signs detailing the agreement between SIGAUS and the Guadarrama Town Council, as well as the environmental benefits of the different species of trees planted. “With this new agreement with the Guadarrama Town Council, we have already managed to reforest a total of 38 hectares through the “SIGAUS Forests” Corporate Social Responsibility project, which now totals 12,000 trees planted since 2012, and with which we try to promote the care and preservation of our natural environment,” says the General Manager of SIGAUS, Eduardo de Lecea.

“Our raison d'être is to protect the environment. That is why we are absolutely rigorous in our work beyond the waste management operations that we carry out. In Guadarrama, we have carefully selected the species that make up the forest, carried out the planting at the most suitable time of the year, taken responsibility for replanting after the first summer and selected materials of 100% natural origin to manufacture the labels that will identify each of the trees”, says Eduardo de Lecea.

The trees can also be visited online through the ‘SIGAUS Forests’ project website www.hacesmasdeloquecrees.org, where the winners can see a photograph of their labelled tree, the characteristics of the species planted, the certificate accrediting the planting, as well as the geographical coordinates and the location on a map viewer with which they will have an aerial view of the forest.