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| Parks and Gardens is collaborating with the ANSE association in the reform of small green corners that unite the city to favor the presence of wild bees | The Parks and Gardens area, which is run by Councilor Juan Pedro Torralba, is taking a notable turn towards a comprehensive management model for the municipality's gardens as part of a vitally important urban ecosystem.

One of the programmed actions involves seeking greater guarantees for the conservation of pollinating insects, fundamental for the subsistence of vegetation and biodiversity in these biological systems, particularly the peri-urban ones.The introduction of native plants with staggered blooms, along with the installation of specific nests and the control of pesticides are the main measures for the promotion of these insects, which are currently at risk of extinction.As explained by the councilman, "in addition to training workers in these new trends and in techniques of protection or not harmful to insects, the City Council is beginning to adapt existing green areas to a new way of understanding gardening.

One of these small performances is taking place in the Plaza de la Roca, in the Barrio Peral, which is already changing its appearance to soon become a pollinator garden ”.

Precisely there has been the delivery of new seedlings destined for that park and the new Municipal Nursery, where its development and reproduction will be completed.In this way, Parks and Gardens, through the joint venture ACTÚA-ACCIONA, awarded the main service for the conservation of gardens, is collaborating with the Association of Naturalists of the Southeast (ANSE) in the reform of small corners and corridors that unite the city , in order to favor the presence of pollinators and specifically of wild bees.Thus, ANSE assigned seedlings produced in the nursery that it manages in the Barrio de la Concepción to install them in green areas distributed by the municipality, and which is due to a project that will be extended until July 2021.

Among the species selected for the Pollinators are found with various lipsticks (such as lavender, sage, rosemary or thyme), umbelliferae (such as maritime fennel), cistáceas (white steppe, jaguarzo, male rosemary), compound (santolina, marigold), leguminous (such as gorse or the ball), cruciferous (alder).

In addition, the planting of large bushes with attractive flowers for insects such as buckthorn, myrtle, strawberry tree and chasteberry is being promoted."These synergies between the City Council, the association of naturalists and the contracting companies of gardening in Cartagena, will also favor a training effort to understand and show the value of our plants and our gardens," said Juan Pedro Torralba.The execution of gardens for pollinators garden pollinator is a trend in the Anglo-Saxon world.

In the US there is a campaign to reach one million gardens for the conservation of these species.

In this sense, during the confinement and coinciding with World Bee Day, ANSE has already launched a campaign to promote the adoption of measures for the conservation of pollinators in private gardens.The initiative is part of the project 'Agricultural corridors for the adaptation to climate change of pollinator populations' with the support of the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, as well as the companies Naturgreen and Ecomil.

The project has the scientific supervision of the Murcian Institute for Agri-Food Research and Development (IMIDA).

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena