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The fencing of a plot located in the Cabezo del Sabinar, in the Regional Park of Calblanque, Monte de las Cenizas and Peña del Águila, has protected a total of 240 specimens of cypress from Cartagena (Tetraclinis articulata), a species classified as vulnerable and considered as a priority habitat that in Europe can only be found in the Region of Murcia.

This action is part of the European Life Tetraclinis project in which the General Directorate of the Natural Environment participates and with which it is intended to recover the forests of this species.

The enclosure of this space, which has had the permission and collaboration of the owners of the plot, was primarily to prevent the cypress specimens of Cartagena continued to be grazed by livestock, as this prevented the natural regeneration of this species and of others that constitute this habitat.

At this time of the year, in addition, is when the cypress of Cartagena deposits its seeds on the ground and is produced, under the right conditions, the germination of the plant, so it is of great importance to prevent livestock graze in this area to favor this process.

The General Director of Medio Medio, Consuelo Rosauro, explained that grazing is one of the threats to this species identified in the framework of this project, "in addition to the competition with the Aleppo pine, the difficulties of the younger specimens to consolidate, the fragmentation and isolation of cypress populations or uncontrolled logging, "explained Consuelo Rosauro.

Within the framework of this project, which began in 2014 and will continue until November next year, other actions have been developed, such as the execution of the post-fire ecological buffering project, consisting of pine clearing and planting specimens of cypress of Cartagena and species of their habitat as the arto, the palmito, the coscoja, the cornijal or the black hawthorn;

actions to prevent and combat the loss of genetic diversity such as the collection of seeds for conservation in the Wild Flora Conservation Center and subsequent planting;

the arrangement of different roads in the protected environment of the Regional Park of Calblanque;

the closing of auxiliary trails or the elimination of some exotic species, some of them considered invasive.

In this last year of the project, it is planned to continue with the restoration of a mining raft, dissemination and awareness actions on Tetraclinis and its habitat, the installation and improvement of other fences or the preparation of a manual that facilitates forest management. the species.

One of the last censuses on this population, prepared last year, estimates that the population of this species in the Region already reaches the 8,455 specimens spread over 557 hectares included almost entirely in spaces of the Natura 2000 Network.

Source: CARM