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Citizens who wish and can join various activities to be carried out to improve the environment

Is seeking volunteers to assist in the care of the environment.

The Department of Environment launches new initiative in order to promote and enhance citizen participation in the knowledge and municipal environmental conservation from voluntary social action.

With this project, and with reference to international recommendations and regulations about state and regional (Law 5 / 2004 of 22 October, volunteers from the region of Murcia), the City wants to contribute to sustainable development of natural areas municipality, linking the recovery and conservation of environmental and cultural heritage with the active collaboration of volunteers.

The Municipal Environmental Volunteer Program, which joins the already existing Metro Volunteers for the Local Agency for Energy Murcia, includes five main lines of action that integrate specific actions to be carried out mainly in environments municipality's natural, especially in the Forest Park City of El Majal Blanco.

The lines of action set are:

• Recovery and enhancement of heritage resources, contemplates on elements and environments of interest for restoration and conservation with proper techniques, and the recovery of the history and traditions of the local population in the selected sites (rescue oral testimony about characters relevant customs and past activities, old images, etc).

• Improve the landscape is to develop actions to recover the scenic quality of natural environments, eliminating or minimizing the extent possible the negative impacts on the landscape.

• Conservation of biodiversity: integrating knowledge-related activities and recovery of the flora and fauna, with special attention to the unique species and / or protected by the municipality

• Support for public use management: includes actions to promote responsible public use of natural areas, working on tasks of information, knowledge of the profile and needs of visitors, and monitoring and improvement of trails and other municipal facilities in the natural areas.

• Dissemination of voluntary action: they seek to promote communication on voluntary actions and results, creating meeting points and other actions aimed to present and exchange experiences between the volunteer and other potentially interested persons (meetings, lectures, visits to environments recovered, etc).

The program's activities, to be held on Saturdays, begin the month of November, being provided the following actions:

• Saturday, November 12 (10-15 h): Volunteer Welcome Day in Forest Park Municipal Majal Blanco.

Tours of recognition of the major enclaves in which performance is scheduled volunteering.

• Saturday, November 26 (10-15 h): Starting the recovery of an old furnace was grinding plaster and the White Majal, environmental cleaning and consolidation of structures using bioconstrución techniques (use of materials and tools do not pollutants).

Both activities will be a meeting place the Municipal Environmental Information Point located in the Plaza of mulberry trees, from where they organize the climb to the facilities of the Nature's Classroom Majal Blanco and his environment.

To disseminate and streamline municipal volunteer program has established the Office of Environmental Volunteer of the Municipality of Murcia.

From here you can perform different tasks related to planning and organizing activities, outreach, and care and information to people interested in details and conditions of the program (rights and duties of volunteers, etc.) as well as management of applications registration card for identification.

Thus, the Office of Environmental Volunteer of the Municipality of Murcia is situated in Calle Alejandro Seiquer No. 2, 1 Left, telephone 212 518 968.

Hours are from 9 to 14 hours.

It has also created an email (voluntariadomurcia@ecopatrimonio.es) and a website www.murcia.es/medio-ambiente/medio-ambiente/educacion-1/programa-voluntariado.asp

The Municipal Environmental Volunteers will involve all stakeholders (including minors, authorized and accompanied by an adult or guardian / a charge), and eager to learn and enjoy nature in its recovery work and continuous improvement.

With this new proposal seeks to excite social participation and involve children, youth, adults and seniors, so that the program advances and consolidated.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia