On Wednesday, June 8, the activity cycle will be closed on the occasion of World Environment Day organized by the Department of Culture and the Association New Culture for Climate with the Roundtable Climate Change and the Mar Menor, to be held 20.00 hours in the classroom José Hierro Cultural Center Ramón Alonso Luzzy.
If there is an ecosystem that represents us Murcia, that is the Mar Menor, a lagoon where the difficult balance between conservation and development debate.
Threatened and hurt by the effects of intensive agriculture and tourism to its shores, it has reached a critical state where climate change is not helping.
global and local changes now meet, and actions are required.
What can be the evolution of this natural area is the subject of debate as participants will:
Isabel Rubio, Platform by the Mar Menor
IES retired professed naturalist.
Coordinator belongs to www.marmenormarmayor.es Platform group.
A magnificent example of citizen mobilization can bring to the fore a problem that has been widening to the inaction of public officials.
The PMM will bring the vision of citizens demanding an immediate change in the policy of preserving what has been called the jewel of the regional crown.
Francisca Giménez Casalduero
He is a professor of undergraduate and graduate in marine biology and biological oceanography, and since 2012 director of the Center for Marine Research (CIMAR) of the University of Alicante.
Throughout these years he has participated as an expert on various national committees
for advice on the marine environment.
He has worked in more than 80 public and private projects in which he has had the opportunity to make bells and work in different geographical areas.
Currently its main lines of research focus on the evaluation of benthic communities, ecology seascape and response to water quality and effects of anthropogenic pressures on communities and marine populations.
He has extensive experience in coastal problems of the region of Murcia and develops research on the effects of climate change on the Mar Menor.
Pedro Garcia.
Director of the Association of Southeast Naturalists (ANSE)
Geographer and technical environment, has been working for nature conservation projects and various campaigns through ANSE and other entities, including several relating to the Mar Menor more than 30 years.
ASEAN has made in the last 40 years constantly monitoring the Mar Menor, in their values ​​and their threats.
His presence will allow us to know the historical process of transformation and the importance of a highly specialized in the defense of a single, unique resource and high fragility group.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena