A contest that in its thirteenth edition has had as winners:
- First prize: Maria Casillas Calvo, for its image Transhumance_2021_11
- Second prize: Maria del Carmen Rodriguez Garcia, with his work Transhumance 5
“As is customary every year, the contest has received very varied images, with frames generally different from the usual ones, but which perfectly reflect the spirit and the transhumant landscape combined, in addition, with the parallel activities of the transhumant movement”, commented the jury after having viewed all the participating works.
Transhumance, Intangible Cultural Heritage
Transhumance is the movement of livestock marked by the availability of pastures in the different areas of the Spanish orography, a livestock practice that currently faces serious problems of deterioration of infrastructures, legal and social limitations, especially health and health problems. some economic cases, which put its continuity at risk, and with it, the loss of its ecological and sociocultural value. And this type of activity has proven to be of great help in maintaining the rural population, as well as being very favorable from an economic and environmental point of view.
In this case, the cattlemen of the Avileña-Negra Ibérica breed practice transhumance between the pastures of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha and the mountains of the entire Central System. Specifically, more than 35,000 animals carried out the transhumance in 2010, with an average distance that ranges between 250 and 300 kilometers, which takes an average of two weeks. In the highlands or pasturelands, the animals remain until November or December, when they return to Extremadura.
Currently there are more than four hundred and fifty farm owners who practice transhumance and live off this practice, in addition to other sectors such as transporters, feed producers, veterinarians, farm tenants, etc.
Qualification
The best photos of the year on transhumance
Description
The Spanish Association of Avileña-Negra Ibérica Breed and the IGP Carne de Ávila annually convene their photographic contest on Transhumance, the movement of cattle looking for pasture in the different areas of the Spanish orography, an activity declared Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Author
Gastronomy Journal