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[The Association for the Recovery of the Indigenous Forest (ARBA) reforestates the slopes of Mount Fajardo this autumn in the port of Cartagena |
The Association for the Recovery of the Native Forest (ARBA) is a national organization whose main objective is the recovery of the forests that formerly covered the Iberian Peninsula and for that purpose it uses exclusively native species of the area.
This past Saturday, December 10, ARBA Cartagena, along with a group of 25 volunteers, carried out the first works of recovery of the native forests in the environment of the battery of Fajardo with the planting of about 300 trees and shrubs such as the cypress of Cartagena, the cornical, the olive, the lentisco or the palm heart.
These reforestation activities are part of the outreach activities of the LIFE Tetraclinis project, which aims to conserve and recover the cypress forests of Cartagena (Tetraclinis articulata), a type of ecosystem that the European Union has classified as habitat 9570. It is a type of Mediterranean forest exceptional for the great variety and biodiversity of botanical species and typical of North Africa and that throughout the European continent only exists in the sierras of Cartagena, from Monte Roldán to Cabo de Palos.
Many of these unique cypress forests of Cartagena have survived to this day, thanks to the fact that they have been protected in piles of public property, mainly military, such as those of Monte Roldán or those of the battery of Ashes.
The reforestation project in Fajardo has the collaboration of the Spanish Navy, owner of the land and the Association of Naturalists of the Southeast (ANSE).
The purpose of ARBA Cartagena is to continue the activities of recovery of these exceptional forests in the mountain of Fajardo during the month of December convening several actions of reforestation with volunteers.
Source: ARBA
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