With a budget of nearly 400,000 euros, the operation is being carried out around an area of 346 hectares in the districts of Gràcia, Horta-Guinardó, Les Corts, Nou Barris and Sarrià-Sant Gervasi.

Besides opening up and maintaining strategic spaces, the work includes clearing trees and low foliage, prioritising the elimination of dead or dry vegetation. The process also reduces and optimises the density of woodland mass.

The vegetal waste obtained will be shredded on the spot according to the conditions of the land.

The work complies with Act 5/2003 on forest fire prevention measures and ensures the protection of particularly vulnerable areas, such as housing developments and neighbourhoods at the edge of the forest mass. It also helps maintain key fire prevention infrastructures such as strategic management points.

The operation also includes the management of sections where wild boar live to facilitate studies on their populations in urban environments

In all, there are three teams that will cover strategic areas on the southern and south-eastern side of the city. Each brigade covers an estimated 22 hectares a month, representing 66 hectares cleaned in an initial stage, which is set to conclude in the second half of June.

Measures will resume in September in the northern part of the district of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, the goal being to complete the perimeter before the end of the year. In terms of the fire prevention sections in the district of Nou Barris, this work is scheduled for June too.

In the context of the presence of African swine fever (PPA) in the Parc de Collserola, fire prevention work is expressly authorised and will be carried out with the corresponding disinfection measures.

This year, work will be executed through the tender launched by Parks and Gardens after the end of the end of the contract managed by the Consorci del Parc Natural de la Serra de Collserola in 2025.