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Ecologists in Action has denounced umpteenth dredged on the beaches of the municipality of Los Alcázares, on the Mar Menor, a protected space in which chaos reigns for decades, due to lack of planning and integrated management of this valuable lagoon, demonstrating the lack of political will to adopt and implement such planning.
Paradoxically, a few days ago he held a participatory workshop for the development of a strategy for the Mar Menor, promoted by the Ministry of Public Works and Infrestructuras, and in which the ineffective and harmful dredged beaches of Mar Menor explained.
Remember that the smaller Mar boasts several forms of protection, both regionally and nationally and internationally, witnessing the great value of this salty lagoon and the need for its preservation:
Protected Landscape Open Space and Islands of Mar Menor.
Law 4/92, of Planning and Land Protection of the Region of Murcia.
Area Wildlife Protection: APF.1 Mar Menor and associated wetlands.
Law 7/1995 of 21 April, wildlife in the Region of Murcia.
Special Protection Area: SPA: ES0000260 Mar Menor.
Directive 2009/147 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds.
Site of Community Importance: LIC ES6200006 Open spaces and islands of the Mar Menor.
Directive 92/43 / EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and wild fauna and flora.
The Mar Menor lagoon is completely a Priority Habitat: Coastal lagoons 1150.
Habitats Directive 92/43 EEC
SPAMI: Specially Protected Area of ​​Mediterranean Importance.
Protocol on Specially Protected Areas and Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean.
RAMMSAR: Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat.
Convention on Wetlands, Ramsar 1971.
Environmentalists warn that despite these figures protection and legal need to develop, adopt and implement a management plan for the Mar Menor, governments seem unable to carry it out.
Ecologists in Action remembers that these dredges are as ineffective as shocking: carried on for years without the necessary impact assessment, and affect seagrass beds, which are the foundation of a healthy ecosystem and whose regression is linked to the decline the quality of this ramshackle natural jewel.
According to the environmental organization, which has to make the administration is starting to implement urgent measures that make all experts in different studies and communications: withdrawal of jetties, harbors and buildings in the Maritime-Terrestrial, Public Domain to allow Natural coastal dynamics.
In addition, it is necessary to tackle one of the great problems of the lagoon are discharges of fresh water laden with heavy metals and nutrients through the wadis draining into the Mar Menor, especially along the promenade of Albujón.
This implies not only fulfill the promise of "poured 0" wastewater (refined or not), but also the restoration and protection of wetlands in the environment of the Mar Menor, and the immediate implementation of an urban moratorium while drafts and approves the indispensable Management Plan lagoon.
Finally, the environmental organization warns that time is running out for management plans of LIC and ZEPA minor Sea, and the management plan for the protected area can address in a serious and effective actions needed for true regeneration you need the lagoon, or will soon have to certify the death of this natural jewel.
Source: Ecologistas en Acción
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