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Note sent by Ecologists in Action:
Murcia Region Ecologists in Action aims to show the mayor what are the threats to the Mar Menor, some of which have their origin in the session that she chairs.
Ecologists in Action has submitted to the Mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, the report Banderas Negras 2009 "The crisis is an opportunity to the coast," responding to recent statements by the mayor, which literally asserted that "no Al Mar Menor need to save because it is already saved. "
The environmental association, however, has a very different view of the situation that really suffers the salt lake, which is threatened by excessive urbanoturística pressure, uncontrolled dumping illegal moorings, motor boats, the contribution of toxic waste sierra mining, fertilizers and pesticides in the field of Cartagena, etc ... in short, for a total lack of regulation and planned management of this unique and iconic protected space.
Regarding a "Use Plan for the Mar Menor and Calblanque Regional Park, this association reminds the mayor that the regulation of uses and activities of protected areas should establish the autonomous region through PORN (Plan Natural Resource Management), which must also appoint a governing council which manages the protected area mentioned.
They believe that would be more appropriate and efficient Pilar Barreiro begin by demanding to the Ministry of Agriculture and Water that once approved and urgently "eternally pending" PORN who for years without passing: This way the City would document management applications throughout the protected space, not just the framed area within the municipality of Cartagena, which rely on to extend restrictions to protect valuable environmental values of the area.
Precisely this association has more than a decade by requiring the Department of Agriculture and Water, which definitely approve PORN Protected Natural Areas that are more too many years of negotiation, and among those who inexplicably finds the Mar Menor, although be the "Jewel in the Crown", being a single zone in the Spanish Mediterranean, despite having 5 figures on environmental protection, both regionally, and internationally.
Also, remind the Mayor of Cartagena that the city which she presides is the origin of many of the threats that hang over the salt lake, this being an example of the fact that just this year has been approved Plan Urban General of the municipality, which includes projects such negative and shocking to the Mar Menor such as Novo Carthago and Lo Poyo, which occupy part of the little remaining natural area with no degradation in the salt lake, including well-preserved areas and even have figures of international protection.
In addition, the model implemented in residential tourism of sun and sand is a predator of resources, and its concentration in the summer months causes disproportionate increases in seasonal population difficult to manage, and increase the pressure on the Mar Menor and enhances its degradation.
This difficulty is reflected in management continued complaints of residents and vacationers who see their surroundings gradient.
For the ecological association requires an urgent change of direction in the management of all the administrations involved, making it an appropriate way to maintain and restore the natural values of the lagoon, and ending the political makeup of ads remain a dead letter.
The solution of the Mar Menor is by not looking the other way.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Water is, in this case, one of the most responsible for the lack of proper management of the environment of the Mar Menor, and has for years delayed the necessary justification for the Mar Menor PORN.
This reflects the unwillingness of the Regional Government on regulation and planning of environmental resources of this region.
Another example of this is the case Marchamalo Salinas, whose management is entrusted to a firm receiving public money through annual subsidies to maintain the same activity aimed at preserving this space by the Sea lower, with significant environmental values.
During the years of the agreement, the Ministry was unable to carry out the necessary monitoring of compliance with the agreement by the company, which received public money for a series of very specific activities.
Finally, after numerous reports of the natural association ANSE, the Ministry has been forced to cancel the agreement with the company, but continues to show his disinterest by not requiring the same full recovery of public money received for a job not carried out, and the consequence has been the gradual degradation of that space.
This money should be allocated to the recovery of the space.
To download the report Banderas Negras 2009 in PDF:
http://www.ecologistasenaccion.org/IMG/pdf_Informe_banderas_negras_2009_web.pdf
Source: Ecologistas en Acción
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