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The CREECT environmental group wants to clarify that it continues, just like the first day, committed to the nature of our environment as well as to the citizens of Cartagena and the Region in the restoration of its landscapes, the promotion of awareness and the enhancement of its biodiversity.
And it is in that work in which we dedicate our free time and effort in a voluntary way without giving up a week, nor a Saturday or Sunday since the group adopted its commitment to the City Council of Cartagena and the rest of the components of the Table for Reforestation.
Table proposed by this own environmental group created on February 6, 2017 after approval in full.
A commitment that led us to start, with the support of the city council,on the same day, December 3, 2017, the environmental restoration of the western slope of the historic Cerro de los Moros hill.
A project of considerable dimensions that has absorbed 100% of our human and economic efforts during the last three years, and that despite a thousand and one inconveniences, breaches of certain commitments, vandalism, abandonment, lack of means, ...
has never managed to soak in discouragement any of the members of this team of people.
All this effort that we are talking about has been done from the highest consideration and scientific rigor, without grandstanding and with maximum transparency through our networks where week after week we have been transmitting our actions with the thousands of followers of our network channels social.During these three years we lost part of the plantation due to the lack of compromised irrigation, due to the damage of certain soulless people who uprooted hundreds of already grown trees.
The drought, our cruel summers and the landslides also made their own ...
but I repeat, none of this could stop our feet.
In our desire to comply, we knocked on the doors of companies like Repsol in order to finance ourselves.
We watered with jugs in the middle of August, we called the society again, to collect more seeds and acquire more seedlings.
We learned from nothing to install irrigation pumps and hoses, to hide the vandal seedlings, to live and empathize with the people of a complicated neighborhood, to learn from mistakes and of course, to enjoy what we do in tune with the nature and the people of the neighborhood.To enjoy with our nature and city hand in hand with the thousands of experiences that citizens have given us.In the long run, all this has borne fruit, turning what was a garbage dump, a garbage dump that counted tons of its misery into a garden full of life.In the hillside we have planted during these three seasons about 4000 seedlings of which at least 2,500 specimens of more than 80 different native plant species survive; from endemisms like Cistus Heterophyllus / Jaras de Cartagena to Enebros.
From Limonium Caesium to Arbutus Unedo better known as strawberry trees, we have received mentions from Europe as an example of social innovation action, we have been part of the Pollinator Corridors Network since last winter, being the first urban enclave of the city in this sense.
If Covid did not stop us, we would have celebrated Tree Day this past March with the Miralmonte School and installed the hotels for pollinators who in technology class promised to develop their own students.Or building with the ISOL and ADLE collective a stone wall typical of our ethnography with the types and materials of the area, a wall located at the entrance to the hill of about 80 m long that will shortly improve the site.
This and much more has happened, is happening and will happen in Cerro.
Nothing to do with the "nothing for practical purposes" that we could read yesterday in the middle of the city.Today we can say almost certainly something that I think is what makes the members of this group most proud; Cerro de los Moros is the restored environmental space with the highest concentration of biodiversity per square meter in the entire region, who knows if in the entire region.
And if that were not enough, in a few years it will not only be a beautiful place for observation and interpretation, for recreation and enjoyment of our rich flora, but it will also anchor tons of CO2 in a city that needs to revegetate its environment and regenerate its air.And all thanks to the immeasurable help of the more than 1000 volunteers of all ages and nature; Scouts, schools, neighbors, collectives, sports clubs, ...
that weekend after weekend have taken us on the wing during these three seasons, either carrying jugs of water at the worst times, helping us to unwind the thousands of meters of hose extended by the hill during the installation of drip irrigation.For all this, out of respect for the community, the effort and the thousands of volunteers who have passed through there, communicate to anyone who is going to write any news about the Cerro de los Moros and its progression in recent years that we remain at your entire disposal.
365 days a year to provide them with the necessary data with which to at least contrast the information, showing the citizens an accurate message and close to the reality and scope of the project, a message that unfortunately yesterday was too far from this today.To finish, point out, that as the current local government has communicated to us in the last calls of the reforestation table, we enthusiastically accept the commitment to continue supporting the restoration of this enclave in the future as well as any other that is included within our possibilities, leaving the group, just like the first day, at the service of its City Council and citizens.
Source: Asociación CreeCT
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