Portal de Cartagena
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Youth Councillor, Ruth Maria Collado, accompanied by the director of the Institute for Youth, Veronica Lopez, visited this morning at 24 young people involved in the field of environmental work in the Nursery Benipila Rambla de Cartagena.
For 15 days, volunteers aged between 18 and 26 years, made efforts to conserve and recover the coast of Cartagena and the Mar Menor.
Lopez has reported that 24 participants from different regions such as Andalusia, Aragon, Castilla y León, Castilla la Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, Valencia, Murcia and Basque Country.
The director explained that during his stay in the country perform tasks of production and maintenance of native plant nursery in the city of Cartagena, recovery efforts and improvement of natural areas and traditional agricultural varieties, marking and clearance of natural coastal islands the environment of the Mar Menor beaches and coastal cliffs, as well as removal of invasive alien flora Regional Park Salinas y Arenales de San Pedro del Pinatar.
In addition, Lopez pointed out that young people will also help in monitoring populations of cetaceans and seabirds aboard a vintage yacht.
These activities, stressed the director, foster the values of solidarity and coexistence among young people.
The work camp started July 12 and will run until the 26th of this month.
During this period, will be cultural activities and leisure activities such as guided tours to various museums in the city of Cartagena, trips to concerts of the Festival de La Mar de Músicas, sightings of mammals and seabirds aboard a sailboat vintage, creative workshops, social evenings, sports, games and water activities.
For the year 2010, the Summer Youth Institute Youth earmarked 419,000 euros of 47.0000 euros which provides boxes of the Mediterranean.
Other partners are the youth councils of the municipalities where they develop the various leagues and fields of work.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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