The Local Government of the City of Cartagena has approved this morning the municipal contribution to the project habitat conservation 9570 forest articulata tetraclinis more comumente known as juniper default or cartagenero cypress, funded mostly by the Life + Nature European program .
According to the Councillor for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Joaquín Mowing, action has a budget of 1.5 million euros, to be managed largely DG Environment of the Autonomous Community, who leads the project.
Its main objective is the recovery of these forests, which are unique in Europe and are in the mountains of Cartagena and North Africa.
Specifically the devastated area in August 2011 by a fire in the area Atamaría and is expected to be carried out during 2015 will be reforested.
The municipal contribution is 13,000 euros, although estimates 38,000 gestinará one with whom he performed work in schools and public awareness of the importance of this characteristic species from the mountains of Cartagena.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena