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Primary students of the public school of the Board, have known the importance of preserving the environment by visiting the exhibition 'Flora of Cartagena'.
The exhibition is exhibited at the Molina Palace, on the occasion of World Environment Day, and shows four popular endemic plants of Cartagena: Talban's garbancillo, Escombreras's chamomile, Cartagena's cherry and Mora's juniper (Cartagena cypress) .
Three classes with students who are in fourth and sixth grade of the public school of the Board went today, Tuesday, June 5, to know part of the informative materials generated in the different conservation projects, in which different entities and institutions have participated. NGOs, such as: ANSE and Sierra Minera Foundation;
or universities such as the University of Murcia and the Polytechnic University of Cartagena) and various administrations, including the City Council.
There, volunteers from the Sierra Minera Foundation have served as teaching guides explaining to children the importance of preserving the environment.
The Councilor for the Environment, Obdulia Gómez, was present at the inauguration of the exhibition 'La Flora de Cartagena'.
The mayor of the Environment has said that this show aims to raise awareness among school children that "we must change habits, customs and our culture in relation to the use of the environment."
In addition, Gómez has explained that from the council that he directs consider the education in children "who from small learn the importance of recycling" paramount.
The mayor has also expressed confidence in the new generations, "they are the ones we have placed our hopes on to change our education and our environmental culture, it is not just a fashion to conserve the environment we humans need to live".
THE FOUR SPECIES OF THE EXHIBITION
-The Escombreras chamomile is a small plant with yellow flowers that constitutes an Ibero-African endemism, since it grows in La Azohía and Isla de Escombreras, but also in North Africa.
Its biggest problem is that the surface of the natural population in Spain barely exceeds 2 hectares.
-Jaja de Cartagena is a small shrub that grows in clear areas of pine forests and pastures and whose natural population was reduced until only three copies remain in the Sierra Minera area.
-The talon garbancillo is an endemic species of Campo de Cartagena, leguminous plant among which stands out its curious distribution associated only with the volcanoes of the area and a huge involvement of the local population.
The framework of the LIFE Project, coordinated by the UPCT, developed a conservation project for this species, which provided a high degree of knowledge of the biology of the plant.
-The sabina mora or cypress of Cartagena is an Iberian-African species is distributed mainly by Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Malta and reaches the coast of Cartagena as the only European city.
It presents its best populations in the Peña del Águila and el Sabinar.
On the habitat of this species is developing a conservation project co-financed by the LIFE program of the EU coordinated by the DG of Natural Environment, in which the UMU, ANSE, Sierra Minera Foundation and the City of Cartagena participate.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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