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Wide forest with workers clearing the dead wood and grass2. Mid donkey with baskets on its back3. Close donkey's face4. Mid worker clearing weeds with sickle5. Close sickle stuck in tree trunk and worker...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003ePozuelo - July 3, 2008 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide forest with workers clearing the dead wood and grass\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid donkey with baskets on its back\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close donkey's face\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid worker clearing weeds with sickle\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close sickle stuck in tree trunk and worker clearing weeds with sickle\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid worker tacking sickle from tree trunk with donkey at the background\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close donkey's face\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close GPS with worker's hand using it\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid worker using GPS on donkey's back\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid pan donkey's face to GPS on donkey's back\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide pan forest with workers and donkeys working together\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE ( Spanish) Monica Garcia Molina, Environment Town Councillor Pozuelo de Alarcon\u003cbr/\u003e\"Every impact the initiative can have is positive. That is what we have specially worked on. We do not generate any kind of pollution, neither acoustic, nor light nor atmospheric. There is no pollution at all.  We just clean the forest using a system that allows to maintain the three levels of the Mediterranean forest in perfect shape. Machinery is useful and fast, but it cleans and also razes (destroys large areas). Our way is much more selective\".\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide forest with workers and donkeys working together\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid worker clearing weeds with sickle\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid several workers clearing weeds with sickle\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close worker clearing weeds with sickle\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close worker clearing weeds with sickle\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE ( Spanish) Monica Garcia Molina, Environment Town Councillor Pozuelo de Alarcon\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is quite a new initiative. We are just starting and yet we have not had any kind of responses, but I hope that anyone responses we get are good. We have given a way out to an animal that was in danger of extinction. We keep them in their natural habitat, quite relaxed. They are beasts of burden, but in any case what they carry here is just dead wood and grass, nothing heavier than that.\".\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid pan worker placing grass on donkey's basket\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close donkey's basket with weeds\u003cbr/\u003e21. Mid pan worker placing weeds on donkey's basket\u003cbr/\u003e22. Close weeds on donkey's basket\u003cbr/\u003e23. Mid worker arranging weeds on donkey's basket\u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE ( Spanish) Mariano Escarcha, Foreman of forest workers\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our job is about forest cleaning, taking the weeds away. They are quite long now because of the winter rains, and we have to clear it and leave it free of weeds to avoid any possible fire focus\".\u003cbr/\u003e25. Mid worker arranging weeds on donkey's basket\u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE ( Spanish) Mariano Escarcha, Foreman of forest workers\u003cbr/\u003e\"Donkeys are great colleagues and help us a great deal.  Their work is the greatest help we could ever have because in forests like this, accessibility is almost zero in certain locations, and donkeys are really useful for us to be able to take out of the forest all the weeds and even woods on pruning season\".\u003cbr/\u003e27. Close worker walking with donkey with GPS\u003cbr/\u003e28. Mid worker walking with donkey with GPS\u003cbr/\u003e29. Mid worker walking with donkey on the shade\u003cbr/\u003e30. Mid worker walking with donkey with city background\u003cbr/\u003e31. Wide worker walking with donkey with power cables background\u003cbr/\u003e32. Wide city skyline\u003cbr/\u003eOnce a symbol of the Spanish countryside, donkeys have been replaced by cars and lorries to carry heavy goods and equipment. \u003cbr/\u003eBut in one Madrid suburb, donkeys are making a come back - and they are now armed with the latest of technological  advances: a GPS. \u003cbr/\u003ePozuelo town council has decided to reintroduce the long eared beast of burden to assist in the cleaning of woods, scrubland and forests in this woodland district west of the Spanish capital. \u003cbr/\u003eThis clearing of dead and dried wood and grass is of vital importance in the prevention of forest fires which destroy thousands of acres of woodland in Spain every year. \u003cbr/\u003eThe council has decided use using donkeys to help remove weeds and other debris, is a non-intrusive method that can help protect the forests. \u003cbr/\u003eAs well as the donkeys, workers in the field use sickles rather than aggressive cutting machines, which destroy everything in it's path, devastating the local ecosystem. \u003cbr/\u003eThe donkeys can also access difficult terrain which vehicles may not be able to reach. \u003cbr/\u003eThe GPS (global positioning system) device is placed on the saddle of the donkey and is connected to a central data base controlled by the environmental group that organises the forest clearing for the council. \u003cbr/\u003eMonica Garcia Molina, is a Town Councillor for the district Pozuelo de Alarcon, with responsibility for Environmental issues. \u003cbr/\u003eShe says that the project does not generate any pollution and allows them to preserve the forest whilst reducing the fire risk. \u003cbr/\u003eMolina adds that it is a great way to continue using donkeys as their ancestors did in the past. \u003cbr/\u003eMariano Escarcha, the foreman of forest workers says that donkeys make great colleagues, they make the whole forest accessible to his team. \u003cbr/\u003eThe GPS device allows the headquarters to track the exact location 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