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After the convocation of the Iberian Platform for Public Roads (PICP) and Ecologists in Action to celebrate on 7 April the Day of the Livestock, a hundred people between cyclists and hikers, have come together in the Contraparada, in the old resting place of the Cordel de los Valencianos along the Segura River to join this event.
The associations that have participated in this initiative have been Ecologists in Action of the Murcia Region, Mountain Bike Association routes MTBMurcia, Murcia en Bici, the Association of Neighbors of the Pool, Huerta Viva and the National Association of Animal Traction.
The livestock trails, cultural heritage, are in danger.
More than 125,000 kilometers of historical routes, of which 2,750 run through the Region of Murcia, are lost to the inaction of the administrations.
Organizations in defense of the roads and environmentalists claim to act against the usurpation of these roads and celebrate April 7 as "Day of the Livestock."
The history of the cattle trails has its origin in transhumance.
The shepherds moved the cattle taking advantage of the most practicable steps (mountain passes, fords of rivers ...).
This is how a communication network was created in the Iberian Peninsula, the cattle trails, whose existence and use is still preserved.
This network of livestock trails, so rooted in our landscape, is part of our cultural heritage.
However, from the Iberian Platform in Defense of Public Roads and Ecologists in Action we denounce the lack of conservation of this road heritage, the occupation with public and private infrastructures and the systematic closure of these communication routes by landowners, administrations and small owners.
The livestock trails are autonomous competition and are regulated by the State Law of Roads of 1995 and, in the autonomous community, in some cases by their own laws or regulations.
The length of this livestock network exceeds 125,000 kilometers, of which a large part has been lost due to encroachments, lack of use, construction of reservoirs and other infrastructures.
Due to the above, the organizers are calling on the Autonomous Community to comply with the obligations that the laws confer on them with regard to livestock trails:
- Approve, as the law says, although 24 years later, with extreme urgency, the classification of livestock trails in municipal areas in which this classification does not yet exist, without forgetting the watering holes, resting places, flocks and other places associated with the same.
- Demarcate the livestock trails, especially those where there is doubt about their route, are closed or threatened by closure by the holders of the adjoining farms (in Murcia the percentage demarcations is close to 1% of the total VVPP of the Region (almost 2800 km).
- Register the cattle trails in the Cadastre and in the Property Registry.
- Recover livestock routes that are usurped.
- To conserve the cattle roads in optimal state, so much for the primitive and priority use, the cattle transit, as for complementary uses as hiking, cycling, and enjoyment of the nature in general.
- Maintain vigilance to prevent other aggressions to the livestock trails, such as their transformation into landfills, the circulation of unauthorized motor vehicles, breakdowns, etc., and so that they can play the role of ecological corridors assigned by the Law.
- Creation of patronages or advice of users of livestock trails.
The associations and individuals that we organize and participate in the "I Day of the Livestock" will not cease until the administrations comply with these, which are their legal duties and their responsibility before the citizens.
Source: Agencias
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