former communal grazing system summit between
We learned
by the press that the Cabildo de La Palma, in the work schedule of the team writing the Comprehensive Plan for Management of Grazing in Protected Areas of the island, has held meetings with several working groups related to livestock and grazing Tijarafe municipalities, and Garafía Puntagorda, aiming to analyze the situation of goat raising in the region, and the use of pasture and forest resources. Not if they have reached a solution on how best to manage an ancient practice that we need to recover in a controlled manner. Let us be wise and copies of our predecessors, the aborigines, who have much to learn. Thursday, March 19, 2009
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The management of grazing lands was vital for the survival of the community, referring to the entire island. The first awara who arrived in La Palma found a true haven for their cattle. Pastures are abundant in a large territory, allowing flexibility of uses of different plant floor at different times of year. Emiliano Hernández Oliva
sent us an email with a documentary on the ancient system of agdal the Berbers mesioua created to manage the Yagur-pasture land for cattle, of the Berber villages of the High Atlas of Morocco.
A agdal is a Berber origin system is the regulation of access to a resource natural, being used by virtually every community in the High Atlas and Southern Morocco. This resource can be a forest, fodder for goats and sheep, or even a farm land. The agdal is governed by specific dates for opening and closing of an area during a particular time of year. This contributes significantly to the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity, and on the other hand, social cohesion in the management of natural resources for subsistence of the people, thereby enhancing the living and sense of group among the tribes, families or villages. It is a principle of equality that is measured equally by all.
Its base is a strong rationale for material production and economic, but with a strong religious influence, where the sense of the sacred building that orders meaning the territory of various fractions distributed in valleys of the Atlas Mountains. Most of the different tribal communities still pray to a saint or holy man who is the unifying concerning human group, which, after opening agdal through celebrations and rituals, offer animals, vegetables, grain and butter, predicting and prosperity and fertility of the community (http://www.antropologiavisual.net/2007/agdal-voces-del-atlas/).
The awara were some eternal trasterminantes *. In summer, when the sun has burned the grass of the costs and midlands, moving to the communal land summit, demarcated around the outer edge near the Caldera, above 1700-1800 m altitude, where camps have begun to proliferate, and the inner walls of the large crater Taburiente.
Like Atlas Berber villages, access to the commons for the summit was governed by a board comprising the entire island for about 3 or 4 months, in spring, these areas were closed to grazing to be the period more sensitive to growth and reproduction of plants. Not grazed the peaks until the seeds mature. Clearly, the closure is not physical barriers but by the moral and traditional rights. This does not mean that there are other areas of permanent pasture on the island-Cumbre Nueva and Cumbre Vieja. Is a system used to allow the reproduction of plants the following year. The entry of animals during the closure was punished by customary law. With the English conquest and colonization, from the fifteenth century, the exploitation of plant resources wiped out some species and others were almost extinct. Today, the National Park management tries to recover.
From April subtly begins flowering peaks, violets are among the first to show their charms lilies, until the yellow starts to monochrome landscape. Its maximum maturity occurs in June / July. Would the arrival of the summer solstice or the first full moon of summer, the moment that marks the opening of the communal grazing summit? We can not confirm, but the magical-religious world reinforces the grazing system. They are the gods who rule in these sacred lands. The standard ritual of summer between Atlas mesioua animal sacrifice was to reconcile the telluric forces, demons, and thus to promote the fertility of the animals themselves, men, vegetation, rain, etc.. Everything goes together.
The sense of community is ingrained in all of these ancient peoples. In summer, the highest peaks of La Palma became a hotbed for human and animal racking, time took advantage to strengthen social relationships.
From XVI century, after 2,000 years of harmonious coexistence, start a new era. The shepherds were losing historic ancient practice, the individual is imposed on the group, the summit will demystify pastures and become a target for economic exploitation. The gods have given the property of field l in favor of humans. That individuality leads to wander up the illegality and animals before the seeds mature, resulting in the disappearance of fragile species and spread of the toughest-laburnum. Pastures are overexploited and lose quality. In the 1980 grazing was banned in the mountains to make way for building the complex astrophysical impressive, with National Parks in charge of recovering some of the flora is in danger of extinction. Compare and values \u200b\u200b
you. What wisdom of those "primitives" who wore the skins of goats and sheep! In memory of our ancestors, for the sake of our ancestral identity, we must return part of the pride that these people proved to be wise shepherds.
* transterminance: short-distance movements of livestock for use and exploitation of forage resources. In the Canary Islands, from sea to summit.
Posted the newspaper "La Voz de La Palma" in March 2009
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