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The Municipal Coastal Services Institute (IMSEL) City of Cartagena collaborate with reforestation day that took place on Sunday 23 March, organized by the Association for the Recovery of Indigenous Forest (ARBA) of Murcia and the Association of Naturalists Southeast (Anse) in the protected Lo Poyo salt marsh on the banks of the Mar Menor area.

The IMSEL shall arrange for the holes and prepare the ground where native species will be planted.

This action is framed in the draft Conservation and Recovery Actions habitat and rare species of the Mar Menor and the environment with the collaboration of the F oundation dependent Biodiversity, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, and the support of the Directorate General also Environment of the Region of Murcia.

This initiative will seek to reintroduce native species in these saline soils are highly degraded by the action of mining, as is the case almarjo (Halocnemum strobilaceum), which is extinct today in the Campo de Cartagena, although in the early twentieth century was relatively frequently found in the old city almarjal own and the salinas of Cabo de Palos.

Another goal of the reintroduction of this species in the Mar Menor is to find out how it behaves on contaminated mining waste, in order to determine whether it can be used for the regeneration of this type of land soils.

Besides almarjo copies of other characteristics of sand and salt species will be planted, as they are Margarita or starfish (Astericus maritimus), Tamarisk (Tamarix boveana) Mastic (Pistacia lentiscus), Sopaenvino (Limonium cesium), Cambron (Lycium intrincatum) , sea trefoil (Lotus creticus), Sea Thistle (Eryngium maritimum), Salicornia or soda scorpiurus (Sarcocornia fruticosa) and Samphire (Crithmum maritimum).

The planting will take place between 10.00 and 14.00 hours, and the meeting point will be the station LVEF Los Nietos.

Registration to participate in this activity can be performed in araar@asociacionanse.org or arbamurcia@gmail.com

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena