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For the fifth consecutive year, the City of Cartagena, through the Department of Health has launched the Campaign to Control Population Gaviotas, aimed at halting the colonization of the yellow-legged gull nests stressing during the spawning season egg, a campaign that begins today and runs through June 30.
The councilman of Health, Ã ngel Nicolas Bernal, outlined in the presentation of this performance that has ensured that the seagull population does not increase, on target to tackle the problem before it becomes a pest, since without this work we do would have doubled the number of copies.
As for the campaign data, 2011, revised in 178 points, 94 nests were found, of which 99 chicks were removed and 83 eggs were punctured.
The Head of Health Promotion and Municipal Laboratory, María José Hernández, and the biologist the company responsible for control of birds, Jose Morales, announced during the presentation that this year, as new and as a test, apply a chemical which acts as a repellent to be impregnated with the areas to prevent recidivism nods gull nest.
The product, based on oleoresins, not harm the birds, and is used for the first time in Cartagena while in other municipalities.
As for the technique remains the punch of eggs and subsequent removal of the nest, and the removal of chicks.
The Department of Health campaign will spread through the municipal website and through the mailing in the areas between Queen Victoria Street and the Paseo Alfonso XIII (both inclusive) and Santa Lucia Station and the industry, with the idea that all those citizens to locate a nest, either on your roof or in some neighboring building, make a notification as soon as possible so as to identify areas and can act accordingly.
By means of a leaflet, will be announced preventive measures and guidelines for the citizens to control the population settlement and avoid the effect claim, as they are not throwing food in parks and squares, not to feed seagulls, close containers when using and put obstacles in the roof where nests had been observed in other years.
Notifications can be made ​​by phone by calling the Department of Health at 968 12 88 71 or by e-mail: sanidad@ayto-cartagena.es
NEW CENSUS OF PIGEONS
With regard to the pigeon population, Ã ngel Nicolas Bernal noted a decrease in the number of catches, which went from 3,709 in 2010 to 2,543 in 2011.
The data reveal that the number of copies has stabilized since the last census of pigeons, in 2005, and is already working on a new census to count the number of partners both in the urban area and the periphery .
NO MOSQUITOES PICAN
The councilman of Health has sent a message of reassurance about the supposed plague of mosquitoes that have been generated in the Rambla de Benipila and that has come down some streets in the town, as Carmen Street.
à ngel Nicolas Bernal claimed that the mosquitoes are not common, but a kind of insect-like appearance, known as chironomid that not sting or attack people, although it has been working since January with around five interventions per month larvicides in the Rambla, for tackling this problem.
In addition, the mayor plans to convene a meeting with Acuamed and Segura basin, to try to solve what appears to be the origin of this plague, which is the water that the company is pouring into the Rambla by the works of Well construction of Storm in the Barrio de la Concepción, which is stagnant, leading to the reproduction of insects.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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