Networks

Over the last few years, networks have been created in some Spanish autonomous communities that promote land stewardship in their areas of work while supporting stewardship entities in developing and improving their activities.

Each of these organisations is working, according to the resources available to them, to articulate the initiatives and entities, as well as to serve as an interlocutor with the autonomous administration and other agents.

There are eight consolidated territorial networks at the regional or inter-regional level:

• Xarxa per a la Conservació de la Natura (Nature Conservation Network)
  
• Rede Galega de Custodia do Territorio (Galician Network of Land Stewardship)
  
• Castilla y León Land Stewardship Network
• Trans-Cantabrian Land Stewardship Network. Basque Country, Cantabria, Asturias and northern Castilla y León (RTCCT).
• Aragonese Land Stewardship Network
• Promoters of Land Stewardship in the Balearic Islands (ICTIB)
  
• Castilla-La Mancha and Madrid Land Stewardship Network
• Avinença, Valencian Association of Land Stewardship and Responsible Management of the Territory
  

In addition to these organisations, the first steps have been taken to create the Andalusian Land Stewardship Network, following the disappearance of the Ínsulas Network that operated in this region until 2016.

For its part, the Forum of Land Stewardship Networks and Entities (FRECT) operates as a supra-autonomous organisation, integrating all the territorial networks and playing a very important role as representative and interlocutor of the land stewardship movement throughout Spain.

The National Union of Hunting Associations (UNAC) is a founding member of the FRECT and acts as a stewardship network, articulating hunting organisations from 10 autonomous communities to integrate their actions in the common objective of the Stewardship of the Hunting Natural Heritage.