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This morning the mayor of Mazarrón, Francisco Blaya, and the Director General of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity of the Autonomous Region of Murcia, Pablo Fernández, visited the lakes of the blackberries.
The ceremony was also attended by the Councillor for Environment, Miguel Ballesta, the Councillor for Tourism, Alicia Jiménez, and the Councillor for Education, Juana Maria Morales.
This visit has served to verify in situ the progress of the LIFE project that recently the EU has given to the Region of Murcia.
The aim of this ambitious project is to reconcile biodiversity conservation with agricultural use, improve and expand the habitat of the species in these wetlands, minimizing the risk of impact on the ruddy and their habitat through the development of interpretive paths, observatories birds and other actions to facilitate the observation of birds and other wildlife with minimal impact, develop a monitoring program of the ruddy duck, other species dependent on these wetlands and those environmental parameters that determine reproduction.
These wetlands store water previously purified to be subsequently used for agricultural purposes, which have become spaces that have a dual function: social and ecological.
Social act as reservoirs for agricultural use of water previously purified and ecological as it is a freshwater habitat that attracts a large number of species of aquatic birds, with special reference to populations of white-headed duck, which are the most numerous in the European Union and relevant in the global context.
Las Lagunas de las Moreras consist of four ponds that receive water from the existing treatment plant by a gravel pit.
Over time, these three spaces have become naturalized in the growth of a main belt of reeds around the edges, resulting in three lake complex naturalized attractive to large numbers of vertebrates among them birds, especially waterfowl.
On January 7, 2011 the Council of Ministers declared the Mulberry Lagoons and Wetlands of International Importance to be a space that wraps during the breeding and wintering populations important to ensure global conservation of white-headed duck.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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