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The City of San Javier has joined the LIFE "Conservation and integrated management of padreras of oceanic Posidonia in the Region of Murcia", coordinated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Environment of the Region of Murcia project which includes the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, the Association of Southeast Naturalists (ANSE), the University of Murcia and SUBMON, a company dedicated to low impact moorings.
The mayor, José Miguel Luengo and the Councillor for Tourism and Beaches, Antonio Martínez presented today at the City of San Javier with Juan Manuel Ruiz, researcher at the Oceanographic Institute, municipal participation in the project's objectives is to increase the level of public awareness of the importance for the marine ecosystem has oceanic posidonia explained the mayor, José Miguel Luengo.
Luengo added that in the near future will be carried out information campaigns in areas of La Manga, where there are seagrass meadows, by qualified technicians who will explain both neighbors and to sectors such as marine tourism and divers, as seagrass meadows, equivalent forests in Earth system, are a breeding ground for many species, promote transparency and oxygenation of the water and exert a protective barrier against coastal erosion helping the formation of the beach.
Municipal participation in this project focus on facilitating the dissemination and environmental education, promoting volunteerism and civic participation, and to facilitate the necessary processing for permits and authorizations for the installation of ecological moorings, signals and systems that allow monotorización of the arribazones for study by technicians.
Juan Manuel Ruiz, a specialist researcher in marine angiosperm explained that the project for which financial assistance will be requested from the European Union through the LIFE program aims to improve the conservation of seagrass meadows in the Region of Murcia, for a study and diagnosis of current conservation, in order to develop a strategy for integrated management of seagrass meadows, considered habitats of priority interest for the European Union will take place.
The technicians involved in the project also will contribute in the section on public awareness and dissemination of the study.
The City of San Javier has already worked for some time in the social outreach on the importance of Posidonia to the marine ecosystem through various campaigns, it is also involved in a project for the study of Posidonia as animal feed, providing the Posidonia arribazones of retiring, only during the bathing season and beaches without danger of disappearing.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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