Cartagena City Council through the Municipal Institute of Coastal Services (IMSEL) and Anse naturalist association have restored the sands of Mont Blanc of La Manga.
The intervention involved the removal of waste accumulated over several years on the northwest side of Mont Blanc, especially tires and containers.
The action also alien acacias have started invading the sand, but maintaining several dozen copies of pine, which are favored for it.
The removal of exotic acacias, conducted by the Municipal Coastal Services (IMSEL) City of Cartagena on the advice of Anse, has required the use of heavy machinery to extract also the roots, but require track and new treatments to eliminate rebroten copies.
Last Wednesday Anse staff proceeded to planting near a hundred junipers of the dunes, and 150 copies of palm, mastic and Lycium intricatum, species characteristic of native vegetation that covered much for many of La Manga, and that appear in different historical events of the city archive.
The plantation has been equipped with drip irrigation system to ensure survival during the summer, with plans to complete the restoration of another plot next in Monte Blanco next fall.
Also be planted several hundred copies of flora characteristics sands of La Manga and the sea lily, sea daisy and other threatened or endangered plants, most of which are being grown in the nursery of Anse in Cartagena.
This was not the first collaboration of the City of Cartagena with recovery Anse des stretches of sand in La Manga and Mar Menor.
This same spring worked with the Coastal region and state in removing exotic plants (eucalyptus) in the sands of Lo Poyo.
The recovery of native flora in the open and still undeveloped beaches in La Manga is a fundamental tool for recovery of biodiversity, but also an effective way of reducing maintenance costs and improving parkland landscape for tourism.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena