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The jara of Cartagena, an endangered species, will continue to expand its populations thanks to the UPCT, which will create a new experimental nucleus with the planting of 70 individuals in two plots ceded by the Ministry of Defense in the Ashes battery.
The assignment of use agreement between the General State Administration and the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) has materialized this morning in the Military Government of Cartagena and has been signed by the Vice Chancellor for Research, Beatriz Miguel, and the chief colonel of the Regiment of Anti-Aircraft Artillery 73 and head of the Tentegorra quartering, Carlos Javier Frías Sánchez.
This action is part of the Cartagena jara recovery project that since January 2019 is being carried out by the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, with funding from the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia and the collaboration of the Ministry for Ecological Transition .
“One of the problems facing the conservation of the jara of Cartagena is the scarce area covered by the areas included in the recovery plan for the species, which are also of a private nature.
In response to this need, it is intended to expand the area of ​​distribution of the species through tests in two locations that have been selected for their suitability, located one in the vicinity of the battery of La Chapa and another in the vicinity of the battery of Ashes , being this last enclave object of the public authorization granted by Defense â€, explains the researcher responsible for the project, María José Vicente.
The jara of Cartagena is one of the most threatened species of Spanish flora.
Currently, only two small wild populations are known: a small nucleus in the Region of Murcia and a single individual in the Valencian Community.
This circumstance gave rise to the declaration of “critical situation†of the species in 2018 by the Ministry for Ecological Transition, which is why works and projects aimed at the recovery of the species are considered of general interest.
The School of Agronomists has been working in coordination with the Autonomous Community since 2010, through the General Directorate of Natural Environment, to achieve the survival of the jara.
During 2017, the UPCT research team worked on a project supported by the Biodiversity Foundation, the Ministry for Ecological Transition, and co-financed by the Autonomous Community, in which they have carried out the molecular characterization of the wild population and the specimens obtained in the Center of Conservation of Wild Flora of the Region of Murcia, the in vitro culture of seedlings and the production of plant in nursery necessary for the reintroduced of more than 250 individuals in six population centers, which are located in the Regional Park from Calblanque, Monte de las Cenizas and Peña de Águila, where the natural population of the species is found.
With this new project, researchers continue to work for the recovery of the species.
Among the ex situ conservation actions, the reference collection of the species located in the Wildlife Conservation Center is being expanded, for seed production, avoiding the maximum extraction of material from the natural population.
As conservation actions in situ, hybridization management is being carried out with white jara (one of the threats indicated in the species recovery plan), control of trampling in the natural population, support for Natural regeneration with seed tests, habitat management, the expansion of the nuclei introduced in 2017 with the planting of another 250 plants, and the extension of the species distribution area, which is the objective of the collaboration between the Ministry of Defense and the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.
The jara of Cartagena is declared in danger of extinction in the Regional Catalog of Protected Wild Flora of the Region of Murcia and in the List of Wild Species under Special Protection Regime and the Spanish Catalog of Endangered Species.
Source: UPCT
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