he Seville City CouncilThe Trees, Parks and Gardens Mission launched the most ambitious afforestation campaign since reliable records existed, incorporating more than 6,500 trees, palm trees and 14,821 shrubs. … Distributed throughout the city. This initiative works to enhance green infrastructure, improve shade, and contribute to providing climatic comfort to neighborhoods.
This campaign “promotes a serious and planned management model based on technical criteria,” emphasized that the City Council “works with a long-term vision for the city and gives priority to places where shade and green spaces are most necessary.”
the Afforestation campaign 2025-2026 It is organized into four main lines of work: 4,154 trees in parks, squares, gardens and street tree pits; 1,477 trees in the areas managed by Medius Probios, especially in emblematic parks such as the Maria Luisa, Amati or Murillo Gardens; 645 compensation trees for works, especially works on the third metro line; 235 trees in new urban communities to enhance growth areas.
The northern region receives the largest number of farms, with 1,299 samples, followed by the south (816), Cerro Amate (792), Triana (787), and Este Alcosa Torreblanca (767). 882 new locations in parks, squares, gardens and street tree pits. The campaign includes 882 new planting sites, that is, trees in areas that did not exist before.
Among the most important examples are Fernanda Calado Rosales Avenue with 25 new locations and Infanta Elena Park, with 30 new locations, among others. Along these lines, Rincon highlighted that the Sanz government “is not only renewing the green infrastructure, but expanding it. Seville is gaining real shade where it never had it before.”
The campaign also works to promote gardens that act as a refuge from the heat, increasing areas of shade and vegetation. Among the various verbs, in Gardens of San Jeronimo I and II (Northern area) more than 80 leafy specimens will be planted, while in the Tamarjillo Park (east of Alcosa-Torreblanca) 149 new trees will be added, strengthening one of the green lungs of the city. “Expanding shade in streets and public parks is essential to combat high temperatures and improve the quality of life,” Evelia Rincon stressed.
According to the data of the 2025-2026 campaign, 645 trees are being obtained from compensation, especially linked to the works on metro line 3. In this sense, Evelia Rincon reported that “in Seville trees are no longer lost due to construction: Each affected tree will be compensated. The city wins, the living wins, and the shadow wins. Regarding the metro works, for every tree removed, four more will be planted.
Risks of consolidation and technical control for the survival of samples
To ensure the trees flourish, the city council is developing an enhanced irrigation system, which is maintained during the first two years of each specimen’s life. This system includes 50 liters per session, mandatory registration, technical monitoring and quality control in the field, among other measures.
However, there is a normal percentage of trees that do not thrive, due to environmental, biological or adaptive factors. That percentage, Which is usually around 10%is an inherent reality of any farm and does not respond to management failure, but to natural processes.
In this sense, all trees that are not incorporated within the two years following planting will be replaced at no cost to the City Council, as the replacement falls on the companies of the winning bidder. Only damage caused by vandalism is excluded. This system ensures that Seville does not lose its trees and maintains the final number of planned plantations.
In addition, all steps before and after planting have been strengthened: feasibility studies, species selection, plant quality, guaranteed irrigation, and continuous technical monitoring. With this model, “the city is moving towards… More efficient farmsWith greater survivability and better adaptation to the climate,” said Evelia Rincon.
Samples in this campaign will have milestones with a pink mark, compared to the blue mark from the previous year. It is a simple but very effective measure that improves irrigation planning, facilitates tree control and reflects a new way of management: more organized, more stringent and directed towards the actual monitoring of each tree planted.