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More than 11,000 plants and seeds will be introduced in the season 2014-2015.
The main objective of this project is to restore and preserve the garbancillo of Tallante (Astragalus nitidiflorus) in its critical area and potential distribution.
The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro and UPCT rector, José Antonio Franco, visited the main plantations of this unique species.
The garbancillo of Tallante was almost gone and retrieved through this project, which is within the framework LIFE11 / BIO / ES / 727 Conservation of Astragalus nitidiflorus in their habitat potential in the Region of Murcia, which runs from June 2012 to June 2016.
This plant was endangered, extinct even considers completely.
In 2004 he was reunited and from the School of Agriculture investigated the possibility of replanting.
Upon application to the European Commission could reintroduce new specimens in the area.
One of the most innovative actions of this project would be to create Entity Land Stewardship (ECUGA). This is an association of more than seventy members, who are engaged in planting, facilitating their owners land for free for replanting.
The entity has made verbal or written agreements are those allowing a species with only 150 plants worldwide can be reinforced with a total of 19,200 plants and seeds.
It is essential that the custodian, as the center on which gravitates many activities, is the garbancillo and the inhabitants of the territory are the ones responsible for that plant endangered not disappear expressed José Antonio Franco, president of the UPCT.
An important way to encourage farmers who live with this species, is the approach that we have made ​​today to the mayor, to reduce municipal taxes paid by those owners, explained the project coordinator, Juan José Martínez, which studied and maybe I can be accomplished by 2016 if the proposal goes ahead, continued explaining.
The target population reinforcement has overcome to 74%.
Due to changing weather conditions have been introduced over 11 000 seeds and plants.
The population reinforcement in the critical and potential area is carried out between October and January, coinciding with the time of year in which it has mature seed of the plant and in nature seed germination occurs.
These plantations or early plantings favor the plant's response to the summer period with greater root development and thus increase the chances of survival during this critical period of high temperatures and low rainfall.
The mayor expressed his gratitude and wanted to explain how positive it is this replanting to Cartagena: This recovery allows, our city has an attraction for a visit, encourages rural tourism and create a new and different economic line.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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