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The Minister of Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning, Benito Mercader, today announced that rehabilitation work areas in the Northwest region destroyed in the fire of 1994 will end in less than a year.
Among the various works is the construction of a Helispots or landing strip for helicopters, support for extinguishing forest fires in the Sierra del Gavilan, said Mercader at the opening of the Technical Seminar presentation Recovery Project Burned areas of the Northwest, funded by the Autonomous Community and the Financial Instrument of the European Economic Area (EEA).
The adviser said that "the work completed before next summer is an important project, included in the Regional Forestry Strategy, which will fully restore the area ravaged by fire in 1994.
The project represents an increase of biodiversity and the area covered by forest vegetation, leading to a reduction in erosion and improving the ecosystem and the living conditions of wildlife, as well as provide important fire prevention measures, such as construction of Helispots , among others.
In addition, investment of six million euros, will be an important driver of the local economy. "
The rehabilitation works include silvicultural treatments on 1,274 acres of the Sierra del Algaidón, the recovery of species that partially or completely disappeared in the fire, the hydrological correction ramblas with erosion problems, repair of the main network of roads, rehabilitation a nursery to produce plants needed for this and future restoration, and fire safety.
Also, the Minister of Sustainable Development noted that "we will restore the forest nursery of the drinker, in Moratalla, which will have two zones: the nursery and the arboretum, to be used as a botanical garden.
The goal of the Arboretum is to show people the habitat by bioclimatic region and will have a forest with a creek and a special area for the blind, which can meet the diversity of our community through touch. "
In total, the Ministry of Sustainable Development will invest six million euros to restore over 2,000 hectares.
Since 2000, the regional government has already allocated ten million in the recovery of the area affected by the fire in the summer of 1994 in Calasparra and Caravaca.
Origin of the project financed by the EEA
The Restoration Plan Burned Areas in the Northwest Region of Murcia was selected by the Financial Instrument of the European Economic Area, including 60 projects submitted by Spain, receiving a grant of three million euros.
The project, funded by the Community with three million, used to carry out the execution of a series of actions aiming to recover a significant portion of the area affected by the great fire of July 1994 Moratalla.
The original vegetation that existed in the area before the fire of 1994 consisted of Aleppo pines mixed with scrub fragile species such as mastic, juniper, or coscoja arnacho.
The streams, steep slopes and at the foot of the mountains, where there is more water available, had cornicabra species such as the strawberry or durum.
Furthermore, in the rocky areas were zamarrilla rock, rock ear, earrings chumberillo virgin wolf, among others.
After the fire there was a drastic reduction of plant and animal species in the area.
Some of them are very sensitive to changes and are still not recovered.
Therefore, it is necessary to enter them, since in some areas have re-emerged after the fire.
Others, such as pine, sprouted in a disorderly fashion, for what is needed is a silvicultural treatment in order to grow the hard copies and leave space for other native species, enhancing biodiversity, and to avoid that can be destroyed a plague or fire.
These measures involve an ecological improvement and recovery of wildlife.
Source: CARM
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