The Mayoress of Calasparra, Teresa Garcia, and her government team, underlined their commitment to the planting of the river bank woods by putting their backs into the work yesterday.
Volunteers have been invited to take part in the planting of the 3.5 acres at the Huertecica, today. (See yesterday´s Nexo entry).
Planting will extend over various weeks as 3,500 native trees and bushes will replace the abandoned plum orchards and will grow to form river bank woods.
Yesterday morning the work officially began in the presence of the Mayoress, Mario Urrea, Presidente de la CHS (Water Board), local councillors, María of the Cruz Ferreira, Regional Secretary, representatives of the Hidrographic Confederaction of the Segura, of the Regional Government of Murcia and Moratalla Town Hall. Also present were membes of the ecological association ANSE and Pedro García, director, of the Denominación de Origen of Calasparra Rice and other members.
The La Huertecica was previously a plum orchard which fragmented the river bank woods. Thanks to the Fluviatilis Project and ANSE, who have leased the land, it will be transformed to extend the existing river bank woods which form the Natural Reservation of Copses and Woods of the Cañaverosa River Bank.
The work began with the recuperation of the traditional irrigation ditches and uprooting the fruit trees, shredding them to provide organic material for the soil. The land was then relevelled to recuperate the terraces and elevate the margins to avoid losing irrigation water.
These actions from part of an agreement with Calasparra Town Hall, the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO) within the Plan of Recuperation, Transformation and Resilience (PRTR), financed by the EU – NextGenerationEU.
Volunteers have been invited to take part in the planting of the 3.5 acres at the Huertecica, today. (See yesterday´s Nexo entry).
Planting will extend over various weeks as 3,500 native trees and bushes will replace the abandoned plum orchards and will grow to form river bank woods.
Yesterday morning the work officially began in the presence of the Mayoress, Mario Urrea, Presidente de la CHS (Water Board), local councillors, María of the Cruz Ferreira, Regional Secretary, representatives of the Hidrographic Confederaction of the Segura, of the Regional Government of Murcia and Moratalla Town Hall. Also present were membes of the ecological association ANSE and Pedro García, director, of the Denominación de Origen of Calasparra Rice and other members.
The La Huertecica was previously a plum orchard which fragmented the river bank woods. Thanks to the Fluviatilis Project and ANSE, who have leased the land, it will be transformed to extend the existing river bank woods which form the Natural Reservation of Copses and Woods of the Cañaverosa River Bank.
The work began with the recuperation of the traditional irrigation ditches and uprooting the fruit trees, shredding them to provide organic material for the soil. The land was then relevelled to recuperate the terraces and elevate the margins to avoid losing irrigation water.
These actions from part of an agreement with Calasparra Town Hall, the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO) within the Plan of Recuperation, Transformation and Resilience (PRTR), financed by the EU – NextGenerationEU.
